Valeria Taddei

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story (eBook, PDF)

Italian and English Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040010624
• Artikelnr.: 70087884

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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