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(2012) Literary epiphany in the novel, 1850–1950, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In the trivial, ugly, sordid, and vulgar, a young James Joyce noted sudden perceptions that he called epiphany. The chatter in a pub, fake condolences, a bit of seaweed on a girl's thigh—such negligible things unexpectedly lit up in the mind and sparked the writing of texts. Joyce wrote his epiphanies into a notebook then later spun them into poems and novels. Although he experimented with them for decades, casting them into a startling verbal pyrotechnics by Finnegans Wake (1939), Joyce never defined epiphany except through the manuscript Stephen Hero (1904–1906).
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Kim, S. (2012). Introduction: epiphany and enquiry, in Literary epiphany in the novel, 1850–1950, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-29.
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