Measuring the Sadness : Conrad, Joyce, Woolf and European Epiphany

Birgit Neuhold

ISBN 10: 3631596855 / ISBN 13: 9783631596852

Editore: Peter Lang, 2009

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Joyce was the first Modernist to use the religious term epiphany to describe an unexpected insight, often within a trivial, mundane biographical or fictional context. But prose fiction around 1900 is full of similar concepts under various names: moment of vision, moment of being, anderer Zustand, mémoire involontaire. This book asks three questions: Where does the concept of the epiphanic moment come from What does it look like Why was it so valuable for prose fiction around 1900 Finally the study looks at the present use of the term only to discover that «epiphany» has recently had an astonishing comeback - even Homer Simpson has had his epiphany.

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• Titolo: Measuring the Sadness : Conrad, Joyce, Woolf and European Epiphany
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3631596855
• ISBN 13: 9783631596852
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

Joyce was the first Modernist to use the religious term epiphany to describe an unexpected insight, often within a trivial, mundane biographical or fictional context. But prose fiction around 1900 is full of similar concepts under various names: moment of vision, moment of being, anderer Zustand, mémoire involontaire. This book asks three questions: Where does the concept of the epiphanic moment come from? What does it look like? Why was it so valuable for prose fiction around 1900? Finally the study looks at the present use of the term only to discover that «epiphany» has recently had an astonishing comeback – even Homer Simpson has had his epiphany.

Informazioni sull?autore

The Author : After graduating from the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Birgit Neuhold taught German and ESL at several German secondary schools before spending a few years abroad in New York City, Singapore, Tokyo and London. She is back to teaching now and has also contributed to various ESL textbooks.