Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story - Italian and English Perspectives

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Valeria Taddei
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032649375
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3264937-5
• Pagine: 230
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Italy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000