Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story

ISBN-13: 9781032649368 / Twarda / 2024 / 264 str.

Valeria Taddei

Opis

This book embraces the blurred nature of epiphanies and sets out to explore their effects in a comparative journey paralleling Anglophone and Italian modernist short fiction. 

Spis treści

Introduction: Understanding the Modernist Epiphany          

I. Theories of the Modernist Epiphany

II. Literary Rendering  

III. The Modernist Short Story

IV. Four Modernist Authors    

References

 

1. ‘A hole in the paper sky’: Luigi Pirandello  

1.1 Demystification     

1.2 Metaphysical Intuition      

1.3 Cosmic Consciousness      

1.4 Blending the Opposites   

1.5 Bifocal moments

References

 

2. ‘The significance of trivial things’: James Joyce     

2.1 Aesthetic Theory

2.1.1 Whatness: quidditas as transcendence  

2.1.2 Thisness: quidditas as immanence

2.2 Dubliners

2.3 Horizontal Depths

References

 

3. ‘Behind a thick veil’: Federigo Tozzi

3.1 Understated insights

3.2 Psyche as Mind

3.3 Psyche as Soul

3.4 Ambiguous Potential

References

 

4. ‘The possibility of something quite other’: Katherine Mansfield   

4.1 Central Points of Significance

4.2 Moments of Direct Feeling

4.3 Moments of Suspension

4.4 Aesthetic Truth

References

 

Conclusions

O autorze

Valeria Taddei is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at UCD Dublin.