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Literary Epiphany in the Novel, 1850–1950

Constellations of the Soul

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  • © 2012

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  1. Sharon Kim
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Epiphany and Enquiry

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 1-29

  3. Opening the Subject: Joyce and Heidegger on Epiphany

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 31-48

  4. The Promise of Being: Spiritual Epiphany in The Wide, Wide World

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 49-66

  5. Reverse Projection: Moral Epiphany in Middlemarch

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 67-86

  6. The Dark Flash: Epiphany and Heredity in The House of Mirth

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 87-108

  7. The Mirror of Mental Ruin in To the Lighthouse

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 109-126

  8. The Look of the Other in The Bear

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 127-144

  9. Conclusion

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 145-149

  10. Epilogue: Reading Epiphany

    • Sharon Kim
    Pages 151-158

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 159-201
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About this book

This book studies literary epiphany as a modality of character in the British and American novel. Epiphany presents a significant alternative to traditional models of linking the eye, the mind, and subject formation, an alternative that consistently attracts the language of spirituality, even in anti-supernatural texts. This book analyzes how these epiphanies become "spiritual" and how both character and narrative shape themselves like constellations around such moments. This study begins with James Joyce, 'inventor' of literary epiphany, and Martin Heidegger, who used the ancient Greek concepts behind 'epiphaneia' to re-define the concept of Being. Kim then offers readings of novels by Susan Warner, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, each addressing a different form of epiphany.

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Sharon Kim is a professor of English at Judson University.

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