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Author James Joyce first borrowed the religious term "Epiphany" and adopted it into a profane literary context in Stephen Hero (1904–1906), an early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In that manuscript, Stephen Daedalus defines epiphany as "a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or ...
Joyce introduced the concept of “epiphany” in Stephen Hero to preface a discussion of Thomas Aquinas’s three criteria of beauty, wholeness, harmony, and radiance: when the object “seems to us radiant, [it] achieves its epiphany.” [10] The term isn’t used when Stephen Dedalus covers the same ground in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Editor Theodore Spencer wrote in his ...
In Joyce's Stephen Hero, "an epiphany" is defined "as a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself". [18] Both forms are found in "The Sisters", in Eliza's conversation and in the boy's dream of Father Flynn.
Cited as an example of Joyce's major epiphany technique—quidditas produced directly—is the revelation of Molly Bloom as "female essence". [88] In his first book on Joyce, the American scholar William York Tindall wrote, "Since the naturalists tried to establish reality, they were descriptive. Before perfecting his art, Joyce tried this method.
"Two Gallants" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. It tells the story of two Irishmen who are frustrated with their lack of achievement in life and rely on the exploitation of others to live. [1] Joyce considered the story to be one of the most important in Dubliners. [2]
For Goldberg, Joyce’s “irony is a qualifying criticism, which does not imply a total rejection.” [20] It has been argued that Joyce used the doctrines of the Incarnation cited early in Ulysses to characterize his relation to both Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom and their relation to each other. Two of the doctrines have been linked to ...
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Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. [1] It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.