Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary EpiphanyWim Tigges Rodopi, 1999 - 496 pages ... a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase in the mind itself. Thus Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Stephen Hero: defines the phenomenon that has ever since been known as the literary epiphany. The essays gathered in this volume comprise a wide survey of this phenomenon. With recurrent reference to its most famous creators, notably William Wordsworth, who was the first to consciously explore and delineate those momentous spots in time in his Prelude, Walter Pater, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, this book intends to provide a broad and unbiased exploration into the various types and categories of the moment of moment that can be distinguished, ranging from William Blake, Ann Radcliffe and Charles Maturin through the nineteenth-century sonnet tradition and the naturalistic novel to modernist and postmodernist exponents such as Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bowen, Philip larkin and Seamus Heaney, and include contributions by acclaimed experts in the field such as Martin Bidney, Robert Langbaum, Jay Losey, and Ashton Nichol |
Contents
37 | |
Thomas Dutoit | 85 |
Valeria TinklerVillani | 101 |
Alison Chapman | 115 |
Gene Bluestein | 137 |
Paul Devine | 155 |
Philipp Wolf | 177 |
Nigel Parke | 207 |
Caroline Blinder | 293 |
Grazia Cerulli | 309 |
Sjef Houppermans | 333 |
Martin Bidney | 353 |
Jay Losey | 375 |
Garrett Stewart | 401 |
Celia Wallhead | 421 |
Dermot Kelly | 435 |
Peter Liebregts | 233 |
Suzette Henke | 261 |
Carmen Concilio | 279 |
Ashton Nichols | 467 |
Notes on Contributors | 481 |
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Page 17 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Page 23 - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.