Michael O'Sullivan is Assistant Professor in English at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan. He is author of Michel Henry: Incarnation, Barbarism and Belief (Peter Lang, 2006).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Phenomenology and Incarnation; 3. Joyce and the incarnation of language; 4. Proust and the incarnation of language; 5. Incarnation and Impotence: Joyce, Proust and the incarnation of desire; Bibliography; Index.

'Showing how literary theory and criticism needs to be reconnected to its theological analogues, O'Sullivan's original and well-argued book should be essential reading for anyone concerned with embodiment, reading and desire in modern culture.' Roy Sellars, University of Southern Denmark