Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story: Italian and English Perspectives [Paperback]

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.?

Introduction: Understanding the Modernist Epiphany??????????

I. Theories of the Modernist Epiphany

II. Literary Rendering??

III. The Modernist Short Story

IV. Four Modernist Authors????

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Conclusions