Moments of Moment

Aspects of the Literary Epiphany
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-420-0626-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

". a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase in the mind itself." Thus Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Stephen Hero: defines the phenomenon that has ever since been known as the "literary epiphany". The essays gathered in this volume comprise a wide survey of this phenomenon. With recurrent reference to its most famous creators, notably William Wordsworth, who was the first to consciously explore and delineate those momentous "spots in time" in his Prelude, Walter Pater, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, this book intends to provide a broad and unbiased exploration into the various types and categories of the "moment of moment" that can be distinguished, ranging from William Blake, Ann Radcliffe and Charles Maturin through the nineteenth-century sonnet tradition and the naturalistic novel to modernist and postmodernist exponents such as Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bowen, Philip larkin and Seamus Heaney, and include contributions by acclaimed experts in the field such as Martin Bidney, Robert Langbaum, Jay Losey, and Ashton Nichols.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tigges, Wim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Wim TIGGES: The Significance of Trivial Things: Towards a Typology of Literary Epiphanies. Robert LANGBAUM: The Epiphanic Mode in Wordsworth and Modern Literature. C.C. BARFOOT: Milton Silent Came Down My Path: The Epiphany of Blake's Left Foot. Thomas DUTOIT: Epiphanic Reading in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Valeria TINKLER-VILLANI: I Saw, I Felt, But I Cannot Describe: Demonic Epiphany in Gothic Fiction. Alison CHAPMAN: Uncanny Epiphanies in the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet Tradition. Gene BLUESTEIN: The Emerson-Whitman Tradition and Transcendental Materialism. Paul DEVINE: Leitmotif and Epiphany: George Moore's Evelyn Innes and The Lake. Philipp WOLF: The Lightning Flash: Visionary Epiphanies, Suddenness and History in the Later Work of W.B. Yeats. Christine van BOHEEMEN-SAAF: Epiphany and Postcolonial Affect. Nigel PARKE: Stifled Cries and Whispering Shoes: Rites of Passage in the Modern Epiphany. Peter LIEBREGTS: A Little Light. to Lead Back to Splendour: Ezra Pound and Epiphany. Suzette HENKE: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse: (En)Gendering Epiphany. Carmen CONCILIO: Things that do Speak in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September. Caroline BLINDER: Between the Unimagined and the Imagined: Photographic Aesthetics and Literary Illumination in Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Grazia CERULLI: Theatres of Trope: White Epiphanies in Wallace Stevens and Samuel Beckett. Sjef HOUPPERMANS: Proust and Beckett: Visions of Mourning. Martin BIDNEY: Failed Verticals, Fatal Horizontals, Unreachable Circles of Light: Philip Larkin's Epiphanies. Jay LOSEY: Demonic Epiphanies: The Denial of Death in Larkin and Heaney. Garrett STEWART: Kubrick's Odyssey as Filmic Epiphany. Celia WALLHEAD: Eros and Thanatos in the Epiphany in D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel. Dermot KELLY: Joycean Epiphany in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark. Rachel FALCONER: Telescoping Timescapes: Short Fiction and the Contemporary Sense of Time. Ashton NICHOLS: Cognitive and Pragmatic Linguistic Moments: Literary Epiphany in Thomas Pynchon and Seamus Heaney. Notes on Contributors. Index.