Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O'Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour in Howard's texts. The volume argues that his academic critical neglect is due to a classic bifurcation in Irish Studies between high and popular culture, and it will use the thought of Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Derrida to critique this division, building a...