1st Edition
Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema Arts and Humanities for Sustainable Well-being
Introduction: Artistic Epiphanies and Arts for Health
PART I: LITERATURE
1.) Experiencing Epiphanies: James Joyce, Modern Secularity, and “The Dead”
2.) Epiphanies before Joyce: Hamlet
3.) Epiphanies before Joyce: Wordsworth to Chekhov
4.) Epiphanies after Joyce: Woolf to Ozeki
Part II: CINEMA
5.) Epiphanies in Post-WWII European Art Cinema
6.) Transcendental Style and Slow Cinema
Conclusion: Sustainable Well-being in Practice: Paterson, One Window’s Light, and Shared Reading
Biography
Bradley Lewis, MD, PhD, has dual degrees in psychiatry and interdisciplinary humanities. He is a practicing psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and professor of health humanities and cultural/disability studies at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He works at the interface of psychiatry, healthcare, humanities, arts, mad studies, disability studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. His books include Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Practice and Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Mad Studies Reader.
