Rethinking Epiphany

From Modernist Literature to Contemporary Storytelling

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

759 kr

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Beskrivning

Rethinking Epiphany assesses the different research traditions that have looked at epiphany and brings together a range of new perspectives on epiphany in literature, as well as new approaches to the study of epiphany in philosophical texts, media narratives, and contemporary music. It re-evaluates and challenges the definitions of the term by extending the domain of epiphany to fields beyond literature.Part One of this edited volume considers the definitions and origins of literary epiphany, drawing among others on James Joyce, Henri Bergson, and Julia Kristeva. Part Two, which is focused on new approaches, presents case studies examining works of contemporary Anglophone literature, Finnish modernist literature, and classical texts from Thérèse Raquin to In Search for lost time. Part Three explores whether the theory of literary epiphany, as it developed in response to the modernist short form, can be expanded to forms of writing and contemporary storytelling environments beyond literature. It includes chapters on Congo-Belgian hip hop, Kierkegaard’s epiphanies, and the media coverage of NATO expansion.The collection offers an up-to-date overview of epiphany theory, as well as a detailed definition of the term. It examines the legacy of epiphany for the twenty-first century, and adds perspectives from narrative theory, psychology, philosophy, and media studies to the study of epiphany in modernist studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-14
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041254782

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Mer om författaren

Riikka Pirinen is finalizing her doctoral thesis on epiphany at the intersection of narrative theory and short story theories. Her publications focus on Anglophone women writers’ short fiction and on media narratives from the perspective of interdisciplinary narrative theory. Pirinen also works in a project on future narratives in Finnish journalism at Tampere University, Finland.Lieven Ameel is Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning and urban futures. His publications include Coastal Cities of the Future in Contemporary Literature: Literary and Urban Form in Times of Climate Uncertainty (2026), The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies (2023), and The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning: Plotting the Helsinki Waterfront (2020).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Rethinking Epiphany: Introduction; Part I: Literary Epiphany: Theories, Definitions and Origins; 2. Absence and Proliferation in Joyce’s Epiphanies - Sangam MacDuff; 3. The Ordinary Epiphany - Nigel Fabb; 4. Modernist Epiphanies as Bergsonian Experiences - Valeria Taddei; 5. Scholastic and Mystical Epiphanies: Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe and Julia Kristeva’s Teresa, My Love - Päivi Mehtonen; Part II: New Approaches to Epiphany in Literary Studies: Case Studies; 6. Chain Revelations: Between Epiphany and Object Biography - Lieven Ameel; 7. Vertical Experiences: Epiphany as a Chronotopic Motif - Hans Färnlöf; 8. Dialogue Epiphanies: Tracing Tellability and Narrative Mediation in Finnish Early Modernist Dialogue Narration - Anna Kuutsa; 9. Material Minds: Embodied and Ecstatic Epiphanies in Eeva-Liisa Manner’s Short Story “Five O’clock in the Morning” - Tiia Kähärä; Part III: Epiphany beyond Literature; 10. The Moment of Truth: Rhetorical Functions of Epiphany in Finnish Public Discourse on the Decision to Join Nato - Elise Kraatila and Riikka Pirinen; 11. “Then Comes the Moment”: Søren Kierkegaard’s Literary and Instructive Epiphanies - Ville Hämäläinen; 12. Reaching Ipseity Through Narrative Epiphany in Damso’s Ipséité - Olivier Salès; 13. Epiphanies as Knowledge-claims - Sophie-Grace Chappell; Index