Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany

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Wim 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

Robert Langbaum
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.

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