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Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story

Italian and English Perspectives

By: Valeria Taddei

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Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story

Italian and English Perspectives

By: Valeria Taddei

The poetics of epiphany have long been recognised as a broad aesthetic trend of modernism, related to the power of art to reveal the hidden essence of reality. Yet the critical use of the concept is still contested, complicated by the fact that in many modernist works exceptional moments are anything but revealing. 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. The work of four modernist short story writers – Luigi Pirandello, James Joyce, Federigo Tozzi, and Katherine Mansfield – illuminates epiphanies as complex phenomena, connected to multiple aspects of modernist culture, which appear in artistic experiences developed independently in the same decades. The ideas of Henri Bergson, William James, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, among others, nuance our understanding of the stories and of the author's vision behind them. At least three threads emerge, as a result, as common characteristics of modernist epiphanies. First, they are a result of the ‘inward turn’ and of the curiosity about the psyche’s subconscious processes. Second, they attempt to rediscover lived experience as a source of partial but reliable knowledge. Third, they re-actualise mystical experiences as conduits to a secular insight about life. The main appeal of these modernist moments of enlightenment is precisely that they establish an atmosphere of ambiguity where multiple and sometimes irreconcilable potential meanings can be found. By so doing, they succeed in evoking the undifferentiated creative potential that, according to the widespread vitalist philosophies of the age, constitutes the essence of life. In reframing ambiguity and indeterminacy as spaces of creation and choice, epiphanies thus bring out a lesser known, life-affirming but not naïve vein of modernist inspiration.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040010644

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9781040010648

White Middle-Class Men in Rio de Janeiro

The Making of a Dominant Subject

By: Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz

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White Middle-Class Men in Rio de Janeiro

The Making of a Dominant Subject

By: Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz

In this book based on the biographical accounts of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz analyzes specific experiences of whiteness as they are produced at the intersection of multiple categories—in particular gender, class, and sexuality. White Middle-Class Men in Rio de Janeiro: The Making of a Dominant Subject investigates what it means to be classified as a white person and a man in a society that is known for its valorization of racial mixing and yet deeply structured by racism, class, and gender inequalities. By examining instances of silence and what is left unsaid as well as precise descriptions of power relations and violent episodes, this book encourages the reader to observe the condition of dominant subjects as a keystone of the reproduction of social discrimination.

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141

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Lexington Books

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1498546439

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9781498546430

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story

Italian and English Perspectives

By: Valeria Taddei

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By: Valeria Taddei

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Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story

White Middle-Class Men in Rio de Janeiro

White Middle-Class Men in Rio de Janeiro

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story

Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story

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