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Epiphany in literature refers generally to a visionary moment when a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes their understanding of themselves or their comprehension of the world. The term has a more specialized sense as a literary device distinct to modernist fiction. [ 1 ]
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 ...
A text is deemed Joycean when it is reminiscent of the writings of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. Joycean fiction exhibits a high degree of verbal play, usually within the framework of stream of consciousness. Works that are "Joycean" may also be technically eclectic, employing multiple technical shifts as a form of ...
An epiphany (from the ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphanea, "manifestation, striking appearance") is an experience of a sudden and striking realization.Generally the term is used to describe a scientific breakthrough or a religious or philosophical discovery, but it can apply in any situation in which an enlightening realization allows a problem or situation to be understood from a new ...
Stephen Dedalus has an aesthetic epiphany along Dollymount Strand. As Stephen abandons himself to sensual pleasures, his class is taken on a religious retreat, where the boys sit through sermons. [9] Stephen pays special attention to those on pride, guilt, punishment and the Four Last Things (death, judgement, Hell, and Heaven). He feels that ...
Created in 1985 on the basis of the private collection of the eminent Swiss Joycean scholar Fritz Senn, [6] who was the Foundation's permanent head until 2022, [7] it is an archive, documentation center, specialized library, literary museum, as well as a meeting place for researchers and reading groups, and has established itself as an ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the second novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916.A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman.
Joyce was born in Paris, France, the son of James Joyce's son, Giorgio Joyce, and Helen Joyce (née Kastor). Joyce graduated in 1958 from Harvard University, where he once roomed with Paul Matisse, the grandson of French impressionist painter Henri Matisse, and with Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan.