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Measuring the Sadness; Conrad, Joyce, Woolf and European Epiphany

Measuring the Sadness; Conrad, Joyce, Woolf and European Epiphany

Neuhold, Birgit

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Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn, Book 130

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 3631596855
ISBN13: 9783631596852
Publisher: Peter Lang D
Published: Sep 8 2009
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Joyce was the first Modernist to use the religious term epiphany to describe an unexpected insight, often within a trivial, mundane biographical or fictional context. But prose fiction around 1900 is full of similar concepts under various names: moment of vision, moment of being, anderer Zustand, mémoire involontaire. This book asks three questions: Where does the concept of the epiphanic moment come from? What does it look like? Why was it so valuable for prose fiction around 1900? Finally the study looks at the present use of the term only to discover that epiphany has recently had an astonishing comeback - even Homer Simpson has had his epiphany.

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