Brendan Behan was already a legend of the literary world when he died in 1964 at the age of forty-one. Born in Dublin in 1923 into a highly talented family forced by unusual circumstances into tenement living, his mother's Irish republican idealism and his father's literary interests were defining i[...]

This is an in-depth study of the connections between modernist aesthetic theory and phenomenology focusing on analysis of Joyce and Proust."The Incarnation of Language" investigates how the notion of incarnation has been employed in phenomenology and how this has influenced literary criticism. It th[...]