Journal articles: 'Epiphanies in literature'

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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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Losey, Jay B. "Pater's Epiphanies and the Open Form." South Central Review 6, no. 4 (1989): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3189653.

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Kussell, Peter. "Accidental Epiphanies: “Gilgul”—Listening (Again) to Yerushalmi." Prooftexts 39, no. 3 (October 2022): 454–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/prooftexts.39.3.05.

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Pechey, Graham. "'A Complex and Violent Revelation': Epiphanies of Africa in South African Literature." Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies 11, no. 1 (July 2002): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1015549022000009651.

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Tagliabue, Aldo. "AN EMBODIED READING OF EPIPHANIES IN AELIUS ARISTIDES’SACRED TALES." Ramus 45, no. 2 (December 2016): 213–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2016.11.

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This article focuses on theSacred Tales(henceforthST), Aelius Aristides’ first-person account of his terrible diseases and subsequent healing brought about by Asclepius, and sheds new light on this text with the help of the notion of embodiment. In recent decades theSThas received a great deal of attention: scholars have offered two main readings of this work, oscillating between the poles of religion and rhetoric. Some have read theSTas an aretalogy while others have emphasised the rhetorical aims of this text and its connection with Second Sophistic literature.

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Hekster, Olivier. "Reversed Epiphanies: Roman Emperors Deserted by Gods." Mnemosyne 63, no. 4 (January 1, 2010): 601–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852510x456228.

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Behar, Ruth. "Anthropology's Epiphanies: Some Things I Learned from James Fernandez." Anthropology and Humanism 25, no. 2 (December 2000): 183–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ahu.2000.25.2.183.

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Garbol, Tomasz. "Epiphanies of the Exiles: Exile from the Heritage of Tradition." Roczniki Humanistyczne 67, no. 1 SELECTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH (October 29, 2019): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh.2019.67.1-1en.

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The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 61, issue 2 (2014). The article is concerned with the function of the experience of exile that is a model for literary epiphanies. The starting point is showing the significance of this experience in James Joyce’s presentation of the epiphany that is formative for modern literature. Examples from Czesław Miłosz’s and Zbigniew Herbert’s works are material for interpreting two important reinterpretations of the epiphany based on the experience of exile.

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Chen, Wei James, and Ian Krajbich. "Computational modeling of epiphany learning." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 18 (April 17, 2017): 4637–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618161114.

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Models of reinforcement learning (RL) are prevalent in the decision-making literature, but not all behavior seems to conform to the gradual convergence that is a central feature of RL. In some cases learning seems to happen all at once. Limited prior research on these “epiphanies” has shown evidence of sudden changes in behavior, but it remains unclear how such epiphanies occur. We propose a sequential-sampling model of epiphany learning (EL) and test it using an eye-tracking experiment. In the experiment, subjects repeatedly play a strategic game that has an optimal strategy. Subjects can learn over time from feedback but are also allowed to commit to a strategy at any time, eliminating all other options and opportunities to learn. We find that the EL model is consistent with the choices, eye movements, and pupillary responses of subjects who commit to the optimal strategy (correct epiphany) but not always of those who commit to a suboptimal strategy or who do not commit at all. Our findings suggest that EL is driven by a latent evidence accumulation process that can be revealed with eye-tracking data.

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Basiuk, Tomasz. "Menachem Kaiser’s Quest for Family Heirloom and the Aftermath of Historical Trauma." Porównania 34, no. 2 (December 29, 2023): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/por.2023.2.4.

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Menachem Kaiser’s Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure (2021) critiques the generic limitations of the “3G” (third-generation) memoir by pointing to its frequently sentimental tenor and facile epiphanies, perpetuated by the publishing market. Plunder focuses instead on material traces of the past and on Kaiser’s effort to reclaim property left behind by his relatives in Poland. This approach allows Kaiser to address the aftermath of historical trauma without vicariously identifying with Holocaust victims or survivors.

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Bidney, Martin. "Flame-Engulfing Storms and Seas of Darkness: Byron’s Love-Death Epiphanies in Kristevan Context." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 12, no. 2 (2011): 97–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41210320.

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Neal, Arthur G. "The Great Brain Suck: and Other American Epiphanies by Eugene Halton." Journal of American Culture 32, no. 1 (March 2009): 93–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.2009.00699_24.x.

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Bidney, Martin. "Peace and Pathos in the Sea Epiphanies of Rupert Brooke: Contours of Narcissistic Desire." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 48, no. 3 (2005): 324–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2487/74t7-3441-6166-1740.

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Bidney, Martin. "Rage and Reparation in the Epiphanies of Edward Thomas: Dark-Bright Water, Grating Roar." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 47, no. 3 (2004): 292–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.2487/y70u-4h10-5254-w111.

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Sandy, Mark. "‘Webbed with Golden Lines’: Saul Bellow's Romanticism." Romanticism 14, no. 1 (April 2008): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1354991x0800010x.

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Attaining prominence in the post-war era, Saul Bellow is one of the most widely read and intellectually eclectic novelists of the Jewish American School.1 Bellow's frequent references to Romanticism form a dominant design within his culturally diverse fiction.2 Taken from Bellow's Herzog, my title indicates the two levels on which Bellow's Romantic allusions operate. At one level, this ‘webbed’ pattern of ‘golden lines’ suggests how Bellow interlaces his own prose with the poetry and philosophy of British Romanticism to govern readers' responses to his portrayal of epiphanies. On another, Herzog's moment of inter-connected vision signals Bellow's investment in a Coleridgean and Wordsworthian imagination that reveals the all-pervasive spirit of the ‘[o]ne Life within us and abroad’3. This metaphysical dimension to Bellow's web of ‘golden lines’ finds a further affinity with Shelley's later notion of the ‘web of being’.4

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Mathew, Shaj. "The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanpınar, Proust." Modern Language Quarterly 82, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 473–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9365970.

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Abstract This essay proposes the theory of multiple simultaneous temporalities as a constitutive feature of global modernism. It spotlights varieties of heterogeneous time—outside but alongside the homogeneous empty time of clocks and calendars—in modernist literature. These overlapping temporalities replace the linear succession of past, present, and future with a principle of nonteleology. The multiple simultaneous temporalities of these works analogize the multiple simultaneous temporalities of global modernity. Thus the temporalization of difference that separates developed nations from developing ones is refuted by the pluralization of temporality. The simultaneity of these temporalities denies, a priori, the ideology of progress. The essay makes this point through a series of interlaced epiphanies about time, across time, staging an East-West comparison that reflects the creole nature of global modernity. It does so via readings of interconnected novels by Orhan Pamuk, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, and Marcel Proust.

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Aldrighetti, Jacopo. "Reverie, Wild Animals, and Gasoline: The Interrelatedness of the Human and Natural Worlds in Elizabeth Bishop." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 25, no. 3 (August 2023): 315–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.25.3.0315.

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ABSTRACT Analyzed through the lens of John Berger’s concept of daydream and Bachelard’s reverie, Elizabeth Bishop’s work can offer a poignant argument against a view of nature and civilization as fundamentally separate. However, the analysis of their relationship dynamics has hitherto been limited to a focus on human–nature conflict. This article argues that Bishop’s poetry and prose reveal elements of coexistence and communion between these two spheres. The epiphanies of environmental communion in Bishop’s poems can be explained by employing the daydream or reverie as the interpretative key that brings together human-made and natural environments. The daydream or reverie is deeply rooted into childhood and is intended by Bachelard as a momentary return to a state of being that is not self-aware, which is typical of childhood and is caused by the vision of a wild animal. It is through this perspective that this article considers an unexpected source of the interrelatedness between the human and natural words in Bishop’s work: gasoline.

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Bidney, Martin. "Fire, Flutter, Fall, and Scatter: A Structure in the Epiphanies of Hawthorne's Tales." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 50, no. 1 (2007): 58–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2008.0000.

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Mora, Raúl Alberto. "Criticality and English Language Education: An Autoethnographic Journey." HOW 28, no. 3 (October 5, 2021): 62–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.19183/how.28.3.682.

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This article, relying on a series of epiphanies throughout my journey as a researcher and scholar-activist, shares my relationship with criticality and how it has guided my research and teaching agendas. I share how critical theories have informed my main research areas and the questions and issues I have raised in my own work. The article also discusses my main scholarly influences and how my interactions with varied literature, mentors, and colleagues have shaped my own criticality. I also take a moment to reflect on how this journey has helped the field of language education in Colombia to continue with the evolution toward stronger critical and social justice-oriented frameworks and how I see my changing positionality as mentor and ally of colleagues and the future cadres of scholars moving forward.

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Murray, Alex. "Jerusalem Building: Lolly Willowes, Blake and Rural Politics." Modernist Cultures 15, no. 4 (November 2020): 419–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0307.

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Sylvia Townsend Warner's work is richly allusive, yet the precise purpose of her myriad references to, and echoes of, earlier works of literature often remains opaque. This essay explores one particular intertext in her work from the 1920s: the poetry of William Blake. In her essays, poetry, and in particular Lolly Willowes (1926), Warner, I argue, attempts to liberate Blake from both jingoistic nationalism and from progressive improvement. It is in particular in the intertextual dialogue she opens up with rural preservationist J. W. Robertson Scott that we can see how Warner seeks to free Blake from those who believed that Jerusalem could be literally built, rather than it being the preserve of an unfettered imagination. As I demonstrate, Laura Willowes has a series of Blakean epiphanies that allow her to become a critic of the materialism of modernity.

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Swails, Elizabeth Heinz. "Thoreau's Animal Thinking: Sympathetic Tracking to Epiphany." J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 11, no. 1 (March 2023): 121–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2023.a909298.

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Abstract: Thoreau spent much of his career preoccupied with thinking and with animals. In many of his excursions in the woods, he would be deep in thought when an owl, rabbit, otter, or some other creature's movements would catch his eye. Oftentimes, the animal and the tracks they left behind would lead him on a new trajectory, both mentally and physically. This essay focuses on moments of Thoreauvian epiphany when his thoughts, his walking body, and his animal encounters collide. In these moments, Thoreau successfully reads his own thoughts through the paths he takes just as he attempts to interpret animals' thoughts through the tracks they leave behind. By examining fox and moose tracks and walking in them in "Natural History of Massachusetts" (1842) and "Ktaadn" from The Main Woods (1864), Thoreau employs sympathetic tracking to produce animalistic thinking that leads him to some of his greatest epiphanies.

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Aaron, David H. "Shedding Light on God's Body in Rabbinic Midrashim: Reflections on the Theory of a Luminous Adam." Harvard Theological Review 90, no. 3 (July 1997): 299–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000006362.

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Paul Veyne wrote a book entitled,Did the Greeks Believe their Myths?Regarding rabbinic Judaism, one might similarly ask: Did the rabbis believe their imagery? Rabbinic literature is so replete with fanciful images of God and humans and anecdotes of epiphanies involving both, that one naturally wonders whether the midrashic authors believed that their imagery reflected some actual moment in the world's history. Some scholars have chosen to view the literature as containing parables and images that were composed as mere metaphors, sometimes used for political purposes, and other times to spawn further associations and religious teachings. The question is, can one differentiate true statements about happenings in the material world from symbolic statements whose relationship to that material world is more vague? The tension is especially acute when one considers cosmogony, the story of human origins, and other moments in primoridal history. Yet it is no less present in those simple midrashic “biblical scenes” that are not actually part of the Tanakh, but which the sages readily ascribe to the text. Does a given rabbinic image convey literal beliefs about material happenings or metaphorical metaphysics?

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Eisenach, Eldon. "Bookends: Seven Stories Excised from the Lost Promise of Progressivism." Studies in American Political Development 10, no. 1 (1996): 168–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x00001450.

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[Author's note: Excising large chunks from book manuscripts is a common practice and rarely a loss to scholarly literature. Originally appended to various parts of my book manuscript on the intellectual origins of American Progressivism were seven stories to which I had become quite attached. I was surprised, therefore, when early readers suggested that I drop them because they interrupted the narrative flow of the text. I resisted this advice until their judgment was seconded by later readers and editors. Cut them I did. But to cut is not necessarily to run. They are offered separately here because they capture some of the main themes of The Lost Promise of Progressivism and indirectly call into question some major interpretive frameworks of American Progressivism, both as a system of ideas and as a defining moment in American political culture. They were to me something like minor Epiphanies, suddenly shifting my gaze and clarifying my views.]

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Poks, Małgorzata. "The Poet’s “Caressive Sight:” Denise Levertov’s Transactions with Nature." Text Matters, no. 1 (November 23, 2011): 145–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-011-0011-x.

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The scientific consciousness which broke with the holistic perception of life is credited with "unweaving the rainbow," or disenchanting the world. No longer perceived as sacred, the non-human world of plants and animals became a site of struggle for domination and mastery in implementing humankind's supposedly divine mandate to subdue the earth. The nature poetry of Denise Levertov is an attempt to reverse this trend, reaffirm the sense of wonder inherent in the world around us, and reclaim some "holy presence" for the modern sensibility. Her exploratory poetics witnesses to a sense of relationship existing between all creatures, both human and non-human. This article traces Levertov's "transactions with nature" and her evolving spirituality, inscribing her poetry within the space of alternative—or romantic—modernity, one that dismantles the separation paradigm. My intention throughout was to trace the way to a religiously defined faith of a person raised in the modernist climate of suspicion, but keenly attentive to spiritual implications of beauty and open to the epiphanies of everyday.

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Chiang, Juiching. "Examining University Students’ Self-Determination through the Lens of Spiritual Learning." Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies 50, no. 7 (June 11, 2024): 136–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/ajess/2024/v50i71451.

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The relationship between spiritual learning and self-determination ability is the research objective in this study, and this study develops a conceptional model of spirituality and self-determination ability through a systemic literature review. From the previous studies, self-determination ability is launched when human needs are supported by the social context, focusing on the satisfaction of the three basic needs of human beings, seeking happiness that needs are satisfied. A short peak experience is a spiritual pursuit, and each peak experience is heart-shaking and has a lasting effect on life. It is accompanied by epiphanies and is a successful learning experience. Thus, spirituality learns how to effectively provide the peak experience of humans "making warrior-like decisions" rather than impulsive heroic sacrifices. The results show that spiritual learning is associated with effective self-determination ability, and that epiphany is an important moment to reach the level of self-determination ability is the act of learning. The conclusion is that epiphany manifesting in three states: concentration, sharing, and aesthetic experience as a conceptional model of self-determination ability and spiritual learning is the vital moment whenever one wants to be self-determined.

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Pietrzak, Wit. "Recalling All the Olympians: W. B. Yeats’s “Beautiful Lofty Things,” On the Boiler and the Agenda of National Rebirth." Text Matters, no. 4 (November 25, 2014): 222–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/texmat-2014-0015.

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While it has been omitted by numerous critics in their otherwise comprehensive readings of Yeats’s oeuvre, “Beautiful Lofty Things” has been placed among the mythical poems, partly in accordance with Yeats’s own intention; in a letter to his wife, he suggested that “Lapis Lazuli, the poem called ‘To D. W.’ ‘Beautiful Lofty Things,’ ‘Imitated from the Japanese’ & ‘Gyres’ . . . would go well together in a bunch.” The poem has been inscribed in the Yeats canon as registering a series of fleeting epiphanies of the mythical in the mundane. However, “Beautiful Lofty Things,” evocative of a characteristically Yeatsian employment of myth though it certainly is, seems at the same time to fuse Yeats’s quite earthly preoccupations. It is here argued that the poem is organized around a tightly woven matrix of figures that comprise Yeats’s idea of the Irish nation as a “poetical culture.” Thus the position of the lyric in the poet’s oeuvre deserves to be shifted from periphery towards an inner part of his cultural and political ideas of the time. Indeed, the poem can be viewed as one of Yeats’s central late comments on the state of the nation and, significantly, one in which he is able to proffer a humanist strategy for developing a culturally modern state rather than miring his argument in occasionally over-reckless display of abhorrence of modernity.

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Leleń, Halszka. "Soundscapes, evocalization and poetics of the everyday in ‘An Epiphany Tale’ by George Mackay Brown." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 11, no. 1-2 (June 1, 2021): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00041_1.

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The article traces the orientation of ‘An Epiphany Tale’ (published in 1983) by George Mackay Brown on establishing and maintaining the contact with the reader through the development of multiple aesthetic and aural techniques that are rooted in the tradition of modernism, but expanding and transposing it to a considerable degree. Brown adopts a quasi-philosophical way of narrating a story that anticipates the contemporary existential, phenomenological and aesthetic theoretical insights. The aim of the discussion is to present the text’s semiotic patterns and relate them to the phonetic devices that contribute to what Garrett Stewart called the principle of evocalization. This helps to determine how Brown functionalizes the evoked soundscapes (as theorized by Schafer) and connects them with philosophical and anagogic orientation in reception so as to exploit the story’s thematic focus on a series of epiphanies that reveal the underlying semiotic and aesthetic aspects of ordinary existence. The short story reveals a variety of direct and indirect techniques that create an opposition between what is suggested of reality and what is demonstrated on the level of artistic, literary communication.

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Tredell, Nicolas. "Urban Space, Singularity and Networks in Laura Del-Rivo’s The Furnished Room (1961)." American, British and Canadian Studies 34, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 26–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2020-0003.

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AbstractThis essay explores the representation of interior and exterior urban space in Laura Del-Rivo’s novel The Furnished Room (1961) through the lenses of singularity and networking, which are proposed as preferable alternatives to notions such as individuality and community, especially in the analysis of city life and literature. The essay examines portrayals of four kinds of urban space in the novel – the furnished room, the office, the café and the street – which seem to offer escapes from the perceived constrictions of the family home, the suburb and the Church. It analyses the novel’s sensory evocations of such urban spaces, especially through smell and sight. The essay also considers how the narrative conveys the enticements of the abstract and impersonal network of money. It relates these elements to its young male protagonist, an existentialist (anti-)hero who suffers from a recurrent sense of unreality and who seeks a more sustained version of the greater intensity glimpsed in epiphanies, privileged moments in which the world seems temporarily transfigured into a visionary space. The essay suggests that the novel respects but questions his quest by dramatizing his wrong choices and by ending with a view of urban space given over to women and children.

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Szakolczai, Arpad. "In Pursuit of the `Good European' Identity." Theory, Culture & Society 24, no. 5 (September 2007): 47–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276407081282.

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This article argues that Nietzsche’s preoccupation with the figure of Dionysos can be best understood as a visionary insight concerning the distant roots of European culture in Minoan civilization. While the opportunity offered by the discovery of ancient Crete for continuing Nietzsche’s genealogical work into the sources of Greek culture was ignored by the vast archive of literature on Nietzsche, this project was pursued in a book by the mythologist Károly Kerényi, published posthumously. Using the classic work of Henrietta Groenewegen- Frankfort, this article identifies the ‘spirit’ of Minoan Crete with its attempt to manifest the gracefulness of life. The sudden emergence of Minoan Palace civilization, its peaceful character shown by the absence of fortified walls, and the importance of epiphany scenes in various works of art all indicate the centrality of religion for ancient Crete. The article offers the hypothesis that the origins of this culture can be traced to similar transcendental experiences such as those in ancient Judaism. The basic difference is that in the Cretan case epiphanies were connected to female figures, leading not to a prophetic tradition of divine grace through the revealed word and public law, rather the transmission of a secret tradition and the manifestation of its truth through spectacular public rituals and graceful works of art. While direct awareness of Minoan civilization was lost, its central concern survived in the value attributed to the manifestation of radiant, indestructible truth, a central characteristic of European identity, periodically revitalized in a series of renascences.

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Barberena, Ricardo. "O FETICHE DOS QUEPES SEBASTIANISTAS." Revista Prâksis 2 (July 23, 2018): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.25112/rpr.v2i0.1655.

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No limiar entre a filosofia e a poesia, existe uma territorialidade híbrida na qual se operam intercâmbios analógicos e ficções epistemológicas. E é justamente nessa área de contágio que se encontra a escritura de Teixeira Coelho, em História natural da ditadura. Através de uma narrativa filosófica. Ou seria uma filosofia narrativizada? Afinal, como bem ressalta Sartre, em toda filosofia há uma “prosa literária escondida”. No íntimo da filosofia, aloja-se a eterna tentação do poético, quer nos congratulemos com o fato, quer o deploremos. Esse inquietante texto contemporâneo de Teixeira Coelho transita por uma espacialidade em paralaxe no tocante aos diferentes sistemas de opressão e violência. Ao visitar o não-monumento a Walter Benjamin, a obra de León Ferrari ou os cárceres da ditadura brasileira, a obra propõe uma pungente reflexão fragmentada por estilhaços memorialísticos e por epifanias líricas. Como relâmpagos de poesia, a escritura filosófico-poética de Teixeira Coelho tece uma simultaneidade de sentidos: a ditadura como estado natural, a natureza da ditadura, a inacabada e constante crônica da depravação e cumplicidade com a repressão.Palavras-chave: Literatura contemporânea. Ditadura. Identidade. Poesia do pensamento.ABSTRACTAt the point where philosophy meets poetry, there is a hybrid territory in which operates analogical exchanges and epistemological fictions. And it is in precisely this area of contagion that Teixeira Coelho’s writing resides in ‘Natural History of Dictatorship’. Via a philosophical narrative. Or perhaps a narrated philosophy? After all, as Sartre points out, in all philosophy there is a “hidden literary prose”. In the depths of philosophy, lies the eternal temptation of the poetic, whether we welcome or deplore it. This disturbing contemporary text by Teixeira Coelho t moves by a spatiality in parallax as to the different systems of oppression and violence. Whether visiting the non-monument to Walter Benjamin, the work of Léon Ferrari, or the prisons of the Brazilian dictatorship, the work proposes a poignant reflection fragmented by shrapnel memoirs and lyrical epiphanies. Like poetic lightning, the philosophical-poetic writing by Teixeira Coelho weaves concurrent senses: the dictatorship as natural state, the nature of the dictatorship, the unfinished and constant chronicle of depravity and complicity with the repression.Keywords: Contemporary literature. Dictatorship. Identity. Poetry of thought.

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Sokol’nikov, Evgueny V. "Hagiographers Epiphanius the Wise and Pachomius the Serb: A Problem of Embodiment of the Authors’ Intentions in “The Life of Sergii Radonezhsky”." Observatory of Culture, no. 2 (April 28, 2014): 126–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-2-126-141.

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Addresses “The Life of St. Sergius, the Wonderworker of Radonezh” as a unique piece of ancient Russian literature, which narrates the heroic deeds of the great Patron Saint and Intercessor for the Russian land. It was created by Epiphanius the Wise who was a disciple of the St. Sergius and Pakhomius the logothete (the Serb) who came to Rus’. The comparison of ideas, imageries and stylistic patterns of Epiphanius’ literary works and Pachomius’ writings shows that Epiphanius and Pakhomius differently evaluated the significance and meaning of St. Sergius’ ascetic life.

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Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker. "Literature, Medical Ethics, and “Epiphanic Knowledge”." Journal of Clinical Ethics 5, no. 4 (December 1, 1994): 283–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jce199405402.

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Peters, Günter. "Epiphanien des Alltäglichen." Poetica 30, no. 3-4 (August 14, 1998): 469–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/25890530-0300304012.

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Toporova, Anna V. "THE IMAGE OF SAINT SERGIUS OF RADONEZH IN SAINTS’ LIVES AND LITERATURE." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 1 (2021): 184–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-1-184-196.

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The paper studies the image of Saint Sergius of Radonezh as depicted in the saints’ lives (written by Epiphanius the Wise, Pachomius Logothetes, and Archbishop Nikon Rozhdestvensky) and in 20th century literature (Boris Zaytsev’s essay ‘The Life of Saint Sergius’ and Ivan Shmelev’s short story ‘Kulikovo Field’). The main difference between the depictions of Sergius in the saints’ lives as opposed to the modern accounts lies in the authors’ historical perspective. The main goal of Epiphanius the Wise is to paint a detailed picture of the spiritual countenance of Sergius, his teacher and contemporary, while Archbishop Nikon focuses on the saint’s historical context. In contrast, Zaytsev takes a particular interest in Sergius’ personality and its ‘human’ manifestations; in parallels with his own life and time; and in moral lessons taught to us by Sergius’ life. In Shmelev’s short story, Sergius’ miraculous appearance in 1925 serves as an inspiring symbol of the inner unity of history and eternity. With peace and light he brings, Sergius counteracts the darkness and madness of life after the Revolution. For Zaytsev and Shmelev, Saint Sergius of Radonezh was a beacon that illuminated the difficult worldly life of contemporary man and directed him towards his main goal, salvation.

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Litwa, M. David. "The So-Called Stratiotics and Phibionites." Vigiliae Christianae 76, no. 1 (October 7, 2021): 73–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10036.

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Abstract The following study of Epiphanius, Panarion 26 is divided into three parts. The first part argues that Epiphanius used a macro heresiological category, “Gnostics,” to combine what were in fact several different social formations in different areas with recognizably different practices. If we pay attention to practices, we can plausibly identify at least two groups in Egypt: the “Stratiotics” (with their distinctive agape ritual) and the “Phibionites” (with their distinctive ascent-descent ritual of 730 sex acts). The second part contends that, since Epiphanius shed light on several different social formations, we cannot assume they were all in one place, namely Alexandria. The third part, finally, offers an “annotated bibliography” of the texts used by “Stratiotics” and “Phibionites,” among others. It argues that the “Stratiotics” in particular used the Greater and Lesser Questions of Mary, which they may have in fact composed. In turn, “Phibionites” used the Birth of Mary and their own Gospel of Philip, though these works probably had a pre-“Phibionite” history. “Stratiotics” may also have modified received works such as Noria. Not all of these books said the same things, supported the same rites, and upheld the same ideology. The literature was diverse, making it difficult to fit “Stratiotic” and “Phibionite” theology neatly into any modern scholarly category (e.g., Sethian, Valentinian, or Ophite).

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Jones, Anne Hudson. "Literature as Mirror or Lamp? Commentary on “Literature, Medical Ethics, and ‘Epiphanic Knowledge’”." Journal of Clinical Ethics 5, no. 4 (December 1, 1994): 340–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jce199405411.

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Gathercole, Patricia M., Maria Luisa Spaziani, Maria Luisa Caldognetto, and Jean Portante. "Epiphanie de l'alphabet / Epifania dell'alfabeto: Choix de poèmes 1954-1992." World Literature Today 72, no. 4 (1998): 812. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154307.

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Hutchins, Zach. "The Fig Tree of Epiphanius in Jonson's “To Penshurst”." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 23, no. 1 (January 29, 2010): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08957690903496135.

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Schütte, U. "Epiphanien Unter Eiskaltem Himmel. Zum Prosawerk Von Klaus Böldl." Neophilologus 89, no. 3 (July 2005): 419–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11061-005-0534-8.

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Lössl, Josef. "HIERONYMUS UND EPIPHANIUS VON SALAMIS ÜBER DAS JUDENTUM IHRER ZEIT." Journal for the Study of Judaism 33, no. 4 (2002): 411–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700630260385149.

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AbstractCompared to other Christian authors of the late 4th, early 5th century A.D. Jerome and Epiphanius of Salamis frequently write about Jews and Judaism. And they do so in a historical and biographical context which they largely share. Their frequent use of anti-Jewish polemics, however, has earned them a certain notoriety. But, as is argued in this paper, while their attitude in this respect is, of course, deplorable, it may be less a sign of their ignorance of, and distance from, than their proximity to, the Judaism of their time. Both, Jerome and Epiphanius, draw from very early Christian sources, sources still close to their Jewish roots. They define orthodoxy and heresy in terms of religious practices, very similar to Rabbinic Judaism, they are obsessed with scriptural detail, they reject the veneration of images, and they are interested in the languages and cultures of the Bible, far more than any other of their Christian contemporaries, or, indeed, Christians of any age. Considering their influential role in the history of Christian theology it may be worth looking at some of these aspects in detail, and see how they could have contributed not so much to the exclusion as to the preservation of the Jewish heritage in Christianity.

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Pontzen, Alexandra. "Gedehntes Leid: Die peinigende Epiphanie in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur." Oxford German Studies 46, no. 4 (September 29, 2017): 360–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2017.1370181.

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