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Cardullo, Bert. "Epiphanies." Hudson Review 41, no. 4 (1989): 707. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3851049.

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Walsh, Kelly S., and Yoon-Young Choi. "Korean Modernism’s Transnational Epiphanies." Twentieth-Century Literature 69, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 53–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-10404939.

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This essay tracks the circulation and anticolonial reinvention of European modernist epiphanies in Korean modernist prose. The intertextuality of these epiphanies, the authors contend, enables Pak T’aewŏn, Yi Sang, and Yi Hyosŏk to disclose the fraudulence of Japanese cosmopolitanism and imperial modernization, while focalizing the possibilities and limitations of engaging Asian colonial modernity with European forms. In localizing the European epiphany, and ambivalently acknowledging Japanese versions of it, the Korean modernists generate significant irony to interrogate the impulse to wrest concentrated moments of insight, “bliss,” or transcendence from the colonial everyday. Perhaps most disquieting is the realization that the exposure of imperialism’s “fakeness” lacks the capacity to remedy the material, or literary, conditions of coloniality. Ultimately, Pak, Yi Sang, and Yi Hyosŏk deploy the epiphany to assert the need for a more reflective, neither Japanese nor European, vision; they remain deeply pessimistic, however, about the consummation of one within colonial modernity.
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Nesby, Linda. "Pathographies and Epiphanies: Communicating about Illness." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 49, no. 2 (October 25, 2019): 278–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2019-0021.

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Abstract Epiphany is a literary device bringing forth an experience of sudden wisdom or insight and is particularly applied to literature from the romantic era. However, epiphanies are also present within contemporary autobiographical patient stories (pathographies) expressing something that is difficult and perhaps otherwise left unspoken. Kristian Gidlund’s pathography I kroppen min. Resan mot livets slut och alltings början (2013) deals with the author’s experience of having severe cancer. Gidlund was a non-religious person but at the end of his life, his blogposts included epiphanies or visionary moments regarding his afterlife. In this article the author shows how the use of epiphanies can be a subtle means of expressing thoughts and feelings when facing severe illness. Knowing how to identify and interpret epiphanies in pathographies can improve the abilities of relatives and medical staff to communicate with patients about existential matters and emotional distress. KAKA I would like to thank Rachael Reynolds and Paul Farmer for their most conscientious proofreading, and Dr. Christopher Oscarson for the accurate translation of the quotes from Kristian Gidlund’s book.
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Platt, Verity. "Evasive Epiphanies in Ekphrastic Epigram." Ramus 31, no. 1-2 (2002): 33–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0048671x00001351.

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(Greek Anthology 16.160, attributed to ‘Plato’)Paphian Cytherea came through the waves to Knidos,Wishing to see her own image.Having viewed it from all sides in its open shrine,She cried, ‘Where did Praxiteles see me naked?’‘Through a glass, darkly:’ not just a hackneyed, Biblical phrase summing up our inability to apprehend God, but a pithy visualisation of the gap between divine truth and our perception of it. Yet Paul's words might also stand as an image for the trope of ekphrasis, the bewildering textual prism through which the frustrated reader attempts to view an enclosed and distant image. In this paper I will attempt to unite these two themes; one, the complexities of viewing and representing the divine, and two, the unrequited desire engendered by the ekphrastic text. Both of these rely upon an interplay of presence and absence which is, in a literary context, brilliantly communicated by the series of epigrams in the Greek Anthology dealing with images of gods, particularly, if we are to speak of desire, those which address images of Aphrodite.
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Bidney, Martin. "Radiant Geometry in Wordsworthian Epiphanies." Wordsworth Circle 16, no. 3 (June 1985): 114–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/twc24040503.

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Caul, Niels. "Panepiphanal world: James Joyce’s epiphanies." Irish Studies Review 29, no. 2 (April 3, 2021): 272–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2021.1914325.

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HILGERS, THOMAS L., EDNA LARDIZABAL HUSSEY, and MONICA STITT-BERGH. "“As You're Writing, You Have these Epiphanies”." Written Communication 16, no. 3 (July 1999): 317–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088399016003003.

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Fish, Thomas E. ""Action in Character": The Epiphanies of Pippa Passes." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 25, no. 4 (1985): 845. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/450677.

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Kerslake, Lorraine, Marcus K. Harmes, and Margaret Baguley. "Children's Picturebooks, Epiphanies, and the 1914 Christmas Truce." Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 60, no. 4 (2022): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2022.0059.

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Amos, India. "Attempting to capture the ineffable quality: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of an epiphany." Transpersonal Psychology Review 23, no. 1 (2021): 32–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpstran.2021.23.1.32.

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Examination of how people experience positive change outside the therapy room is of use to those seeking to support people who want to change within the realms of psychotherapy. The qualitative literature which has examined the topic of sudden and profound transformation has mostly focused on the antecedent and facilitative factors associated with this form of change. This study aims to explore the epiphanies of six participants who took part in unstructured interviews. The data generated was subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Three major themes emerge: (i) Making sense of an ineffable experience; (ii) Who I was, what happened, who I am now; (iii) Illuminating purpose – each associated with a subtheme. A found poem is also presented for each major theme. The implications for therapeutic practitioners, mental health professionals and educators are discussed. It is concluded that the empathic understanding of such experiences may be enhanced from engaging with the dimensions of epiphanic experiences described here.
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Petridou, Georgia. "On divine epiphanies : contextualising and conceptualising epiphanic narratives in Greek literature and culture (7th BC-2nd AD)." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438736.

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Briseño, J. Andrew. "Henderson Street Bazaar and Other Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33222/.

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The preface, "Against Buses: Charles Baxter and the Contemporary Epiphany" deals with the epiphany as a potential ending to short stories. Baxter holds that epiphanies are trite and without purpose in today's fiction. I argue that Baxter's view, while not without merit, is limiting. Beginning with James Joyce and Katherine Anne Porter and moving to my own work, I discuss how some epiphanies, particularly false ones, can enhance rather than detract from excellent fiction. Five short stories make up the remainder of this thesis: "Dedication," "Taking it with You," "Transition to Flowers," "Profile in Courage," and "Henderson Street Bazaar."
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Beaver, Nicholas William. "Narrative Aporia: Deconstructing the Epiphanic Moment in Early Modernist Literature." Walsh University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1555508689094604.

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Shonkwiler, Curt. "Humor as Epiphanic Awareness and Attempted Self-Transcendence." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14226070.

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The starting premise of this dissertation is that the formal techniques of comedy make the comic novel a distinct form within the category of the novel, not just in terms of content, the way one novelistic genre is distinct from another, but also in terms of form, similar to the way poetry is distinct from prose. The argument is that the formal structures of comedy, such as set-ups, punchlines, and comic rhythm, combine to constitute a formally rigorous, almost rule-bound art form. These techniques are explored through close readings of various 20th century comic novels, in particular Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Le Sabotage amoureux by Amélie Nothomb, Moskva-Pethushki by Venedikt Erofeev and Catch-22 Joseph Heller. The further extension of this argument is that these formal structures create certain fundamental characteristics the comic novel, which in turn instantiate spiritual and emotional functions of the comedy on a structural level. The most important of these functions are that comedy serves creates a sudden, epiphanic awareness of reality, a sense of self-transcendence, and an instant bond between people. Finally, the dissertation considers the limitations of these functions. For example, comedy creates awareness of that which was previously latently grasped, but rarely substantively new knowledge. The sense of self-transcendence it is real but momentary, fleeting. And the connection it fosters between people is instant but limited by its own basic impersonality.
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Eaves, Shane Richard. "Geographic Intersection| Urban Landscapes, the Natural World, and the Epiphanic Moment." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1526901.

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Geographic Intersection: Urban Landscapes, the Natural World, and the Epiphanic Moment is a collection of poetry spanning my undergraduate and graduate career at California State University, Long Beach. The three-part structure of this work largely encapsulates the esthetic concerns and subject matter of my poetry. I investigate the way space is socially, culturally, and geopolitically rendered in an attempt to illuminate the (in)visible substructures and wilderness of urban environments. The natural world is also important to my work, functioning as a catalyst for the revelation and epiphany of existential and biological unity. The appendices are arranged so they seamlessly fluctuate between natural and urban environments, with attention paid to socioeconomic and cultural nuance throughout.

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Shen, Chong [Verfasser]. "Epiphanie und Mnemopoesie : Motiv und Struktur des Vorübergehens bei Stefan George und Hugo von Hofmannsthal / Chong Shen." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1188613626/34.

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Ritter, Ina. "Die Epiphanie des Augenblicks Wahrnehmung und Projektion bei Rainer Maria Rilke und Jens Peter Jacobsen." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/99243128X/04.

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Sopcak, Paul. "Epiphanies of finitude: a phenomenological study of existential reading." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1796.

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A prominent hypothesis in literary studies is that readers, especially those that are fully immersed, engage empathically with fictional characters. This dissertation provides a critique of the Cartesian assumptions embedded in contemporary (cognitive scientific) models of empathy and then goes on to provide an alternative account of empathy based on especially Husserl’s and Heidegger’s phenomenology. According to this alternative, empathy does not establish but rather discloses in reflection an already present intersubjectivity from which it is derivative. It is also held that readers who are fully empathically engaged in a literary text lose self-awareness. I provide a critique of this view and present a Husserlian model according to which full engagement with the other and continuation of a certain kind of self-awareness occur simultaneously. This phenomenological alternative is based on the notion that an experiential self-givenness or “mineness” accompanies all my experiences and is prior to any objectifying forms of self-awareness. I then critique Cartesian models of (self-)reflection and self-modification in literary reading and with the help of Heidegger suggest a phenomenological model within which the distinction between modification of beliefs and the modification that is inherent in experiencing becomes understandable as contingent on the form of ontological interrogation that Merleau-Ponty terms “radical reflection”. Finally, I present a series of empirical studies investigating whether the preceding theoretical distinctions are borne out in the experiences of actual readers of literary texts concerned with human finitude. Phenomenological methods, (Kuiken, Schopflocher, and Wild; Kuiken and Miall, “Numerically Aided Phenomenology”) were employed to 1) identify several distinct types of reading experience, 2) spell out how one of those types instantiates ‘existential reading’ as conceived here, and 3) provide convergent and discriminant validation of this type of reading experience. Of particular interest was whether a form of existential reading can be understood as an event during which readers engage the text through a form of empathic engagement that is grounded in an a priori intersubjectivity, that retains an experiential self-awareness or “mineness” simultaneously with empathic engagement, and that supports a non-Cartesian form of “radical reflection” that opens onto an ontological consideration of finitude.
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St-Laurent, Alexander. "The violence of bearing witness in Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24789.

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Les études présentées dans ce thèse, The Violence of Bearing Witness in Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy, portent sur les représentations narratives de l’acte de témoigner dans les textes des écrivains américains Flannery O'Connor et Cormac McCarthy. Plus précisement, j'identifie l'acte de témoigner comme étant une fonction essentielle du prophète et situe ensuite la représentation narrative de cet acte dans la tradition de la jérémiade américaine. Je débute alors mon étude de O’Connor en examinant son interprétation du rôle du prophète aussi bien dans ses textes que dans la société en générale et sa culture en particulier. Je place ensuite son corpus dans le contexte du mouvement des droits civiques des 1950s-60s et retrace l’évolution de ses personnages noirs à travers la progression d’un groupe de récits que je term « The Geranium Variations ». Mon analyse herméneutique de Blood Meridian emploie la typologie de la violence de Slavoj Žižek pour affirmer que, bien que le roman soit rempli de représentations vives de la violence, McCarthy démontre que la violence structurelle est à l’origine des flambées individuelles – c’est-à-dire de guerre, d’expansion territoriale agressive et de génocide sanctionné par l’État. De plus, mes études démontre que les descriptions excessives de violence du roman sont juxtaposées à une pénurie de description narrative dans la mesure où les représentations incessantes de violence tout au long du roman aboutissent à la mort non décrite du protagoniste, the kid. Enfin, je conclus que les allusions aux Écritures au tout début du roman prédit que the kid aura un rôle liminal dans le texte en tant que prophèt maudit qui a pour fonction de témoigner les horreurs indescriptibles de la nuit des temps.
This dissertation, The Violence of Bearing Witness in Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy, investigates the narrative expressions of bearing witness in the fiction of two writers of the American South: Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy. I identify the act of bearing witness as an essential function of the prophet and locate the narrative representation of this act within the tradition of the American jeremiad. I begin my study of O’Connor’s works by investigating her understanding of the significance of the role of the prophet in her writing as well as in modern society. I then situate O’Connor’s literary art within the context of the civil rights movement and trace the evolution of her treatment of Black characters through the progress of a group of stories I have termed the “Geranium Variations.” My hermeneutic analysis of Blood Meridian employs Slavoj Žižek’s typology of violence to argue that though the novel is replete with vivid portrayals of violence, the true horror with which McCarthy reckons is the structural violence that fosters the individual outbreaks of brutality, i.e. warfare, aggressive territorial expansion, and state-sanctioned genocide. I demonstrate that the novel’s excessive descriptions of violence are juxtaposed with an absence of description insofar as the relentless representations of gratuitous violence throughout the novel culminate in the unnarrated death of the protagonist, the kid. I conclude that the allusions to scripture in the opening sentences of the novel foretells the kid’s liminal role in the text as a cursed prophet whose function is to witness the unspeakable horrors of history.
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Keep, Carol Julia. "Insubstantial pageants fading : a critical exploration of epiphanic discourse, with special reference to three of Robert Browning's major religious poems." Diss., 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17061.

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This dissertation examines the nature of epiphanic discourse in three of Robert Browning's religious poems, namely, 'Christmas- Eve', 'Easter-bay' and 'La Saisiaz'. Chapter 1 investigates epiphany from religious, historical and theoretical perspectives, followed by a discussion of Browning's developing Christian beliefs. Chapters 2 and 3 explore the epiphanic moment in the companion poems, 'Christmas- Eve' and 'Easter-Day'. Chapter 4 explores how the double epiphany initiated from Browning's personal experience recounted in 'La Saisiaz', finds its resolution in 'The Two Poets of Croisic'. Browning's 'good minute' or 'infinite moment' originates in Romanticism and reverberates into the twentieth century mainly in the writing of James Joyce, who first used the word 'epiphany' in its literary sense. Because Browning's faith allowed continual interrogation of Christian doctrine, his experience and reading of epiphanic moments avoid any attempt at closure. Thus they offer the reader both a human image for recognition and a coded legend for individual interpretation
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Books on the topic "Epiphanies in literature"

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Wenner, Claudia. Moments of being: Zur Psychologie des Augenblicks bei Virginia Woolf. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1998.

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Frietsch, Wolfram. Die Symbolik der Epiphanien in Peter Handkes Texten: Strukturmomente eines neuen Zusammenhanges. Sinzheim: Pro Universitate Verlag, 1995.

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Zaiser, Rainer. Die Epiphanie in der französischen Literatur: Zur Entmystifizierung eines religiösen Erlebnismusters. Tübingen: G. Narr Verlag, 1995.

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Johnson, Sandra Humble. The space between: Literary epiphany in the work of Annie Dillard. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1992.

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Angelis, Palmira De. L' immagine epifanica: Hopkins, D'Annunzio, Joyce : momenti di una poetica. Roma: Bulzoni editore, 1989.

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Azérad, Hugo. L' univers constellé de Proust, Joyce et Faulkner: Le concept d'épiphanie dans l'esthétique du modernisme. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002.

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Wim, Tigges, ed. Moments of moment: Aspects of the literary epiphany. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.

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Finck, Michèle. Épiphanies musicales en poésie moderne, de Rilke à Bonnefoy: Le musicien panseur. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2014.

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Ch, Kallinterēs Dēmētrios, Kounavē Geōrgia P, and Moutsoulas Ēlias D, eds. Epiphanios Salaminos Kyprou (Meros 4). Athēnai: Apostolikē Diakonia tēs Ekklēsias tēs Hellados, 1999.

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P, Kounavē Geōrgia, and Moutsoulas Ēlias D, eds. Epiphanios Salaminos Kyprou (Meros 3). Athēnai: Apostolikē Diakonia tēs Ekklēsias tēs Hellados, 1998.

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Lewis, Bradley. "Experiencing Epiphanies." In Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema, 21–44. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301639-3.

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Lewis, Bradley. "Epiphanies before Joyce." In Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema, 60–91. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301639-5.

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Lewis, Bradley. "Epiphanies before Joyce." In Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema, 45–59. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301639-4.

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Lewis, Bradley. "Epiphanies after Joyce." In Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema, 92–124. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301639-6.

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Lewis, Bradley. "Epiphanies in Post-WWII European Art Cinema." In Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema, 127–51. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301639-8.

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Lewis, Bradley. "Transcendental Style and Slow Cinema." In Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema, 152–81. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301639-9.

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Lewis, Bradley. "Conclusion." In Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema, 182–98. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301639-10.

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Lewis, Bradley. "Introduction." In Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema, 1–17. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003301639-1.

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Court, Elsa. "“Roadside Eye”: Accidents and Epiphanies in Robert Frank’s The Americans (1958)." In The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography, 65–103. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36733-6_3.

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Gabler, Hans Walter. "Emergence of James Joyce’s Dialogue Poetics." In Genetic Inroads into the Art of James Joyce, 315–46. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0325.10.

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This chapter re-illuminates as it re-encompasses most widely the progression of Joyce’s writing under the dominant aspect of the poetics shaping his art, arguing that the progress from the epiphanies via Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to the Scylla & Charybdis midpoint of Ulysses demonstrates how he emulated and achieved a mode of writing akin to Shakespeare’s that he in 1900 singled out and defined as ‘literature in dialogue’.
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