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Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story: Italian and English Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story Italian and English Perspectives

By Valeria Taddei Copyright 2024
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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The poetics of epiphany have long been recognised as a broad aesthetic trend of modernism, related to the power of art to reveal the hidden essence of reality. Yet the critical use of the concept is still contested, complicated by the fact that in many modernist works exceptional moments are anything but revealing. This book embraces the blurred nature of epiphanies and sets out to explore their... Read more

Introduction: Understanding the Modernist Epiphany          

I. Theories of the Modernist Epiphany

II. Literary Rendering  

III. The Modernist Short Story

IV. Four Modernist Authors    

References

 

1. ‘A hole in the paper sky’: Luigi Pirandello  

1.1 Demystification     

1.2 Metaphysical Intuition      

1.3 Cosmic Consciousness      

1.4 Blending the Opposites   

1.5 Bifocal moments

References

 

2. ‘The significance of trivial things’: James Joyce     

2.1 Aesthetic Theory

2.1.1 Whatness: quidditas as transcendence  

2.1.2 Thisness: quidditas as immanence

2.2 Dubliners

2.3 Horizontal Depths

References

 

3. ‘Behind a thick veil’: Federigo Tozzi

3.1 Understated insights

3.2 Psyche as Mind

3.3 Psyche as Soul

3.4 Ambiguous Potential

References

 

4. ‘The possibility of something quite other’: Katherine Mansfield   

4.1 Central Points of Significance

4.2 Moments of Direct Feeling

4.3 Moments of Suspension

4.4 Aesthetic Truth

References

 

Conclusions

Biography

Valeria Taddei is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at UCD Dublin.

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