the term epiphany, often used in a religious context, means an understanding that comes about through a sudden intuitive realization. A Joycean epiphany is a small descriptive moment, action, or phrase that holds much larger meaning–for example, a single word or gesture that explains a person’s entire personality.
As you can see, there is a difference in the meanings, so you can have an epiphany, but that is different from a Joycean epiphany.
Well, I'm not sure about that, but given that I consider myself fairly well versed in the language and I'd never heard the term before I looked it up, although the meaning of epiphany was well known to me. So if you'd used it in a fic I'd beta'd, I'd probably indicate it should be taken out as most people would never have heard of it.
Bwah! You know, I've blocked most of high school required reading from my mind. It's behind a high wall. The Lottery? Metamorphosis? Ethan Frome? Never heard of 'em.
Heh. Well, POTA was just this past fall semester, in my sophomore year of college, so I haven't had time to forget it. ;) I actually haven't read all of Ulysses, but the parts I have read were less than thrilling.
I've blocked a good number of things from high school out of my brain, though. For instance, I have never heard of The Grapes of Wrath, nor Wuthering Heights. Nope, not me. (Of course, as a freaky English major, I'm currently reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles for fun, so nobody puts much stock in my opinions. ;))
Oh yeah. Grapes of Wrath and Wuthering Heights are erased from memory. Bye bye.
Yep. Those two, along with anything by Charles Dickens, William Faulkner (bad Southerner, I know, but I don't care), and The Red Badge of Courage are pretty much the only books that I have a truly visceral hatred for. I've found something to like about everything else I've had to read so far.
I have never heard of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Hmm.
Heard of Thomas Hardy? He wrote The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, and several other novels in the late nineteenth century. They're like Victorian soap operas, but the fact that Hardy is snarking hard on all his ridiculous characters comes through clearly. They're fabulous.
I haven't heard of Thomas Hardy. Well, the name sounds the vaugest of vaugely familiar...ness. I'm starting to think my education was seriously lacking!
Heh. I think his most famous novel might actually be Far From the Madding Crowd...although English profs seem to like Tess, Mayor, and Jude more. I probably wouldn't have heard of him except for having to read Mayor in AP English two years ago.
Heh. Dia's scared of The Lottery. Said the story freaks her out. Heh. I, on the other hand, read The Lottery, then went and read the one in which the wife bashed her husband's brains in with a frying pan. Fun stuff. ;)
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From the Encarta entry on James Joyce:As you can see, there is a difference in the meanings, so you can have an epiphany, but that is different from a Joycean epiphany.
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I've blocked a good number of things from high school out of my brain, though. For instance, I have never heard of The Grapes of Wrath, nor Wuthering Heights. Nope, not me. (Of course, as a freaky English major, I'm currently reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles for fun, so nobody puts much stock in my opinions. ;))
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I have never heard of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Hmm.
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Yep. Those two, along with anything by Charles Dickens, William Faulkner (bad Southerner, I know, but I don't care), and The Red Badge of Courage are pretty much the only books that I have a truly visceral hatred for. I've found something to like about everything else I've had to read so far.
I have never heard of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Hmm.
Heard of Thomas Hardy? He wrote The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, and several other novels in the late nineteenth century. They're like Victorian soap operas, but the fact that Hardy is snarking hard on all his ridiculous characters comes through clearly. They're fabulous.
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What I'd really like to ask is where all of her long, involved, plot-driven stories full of Joycean epiphanies are archived. ;)
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Hey! The Lottery is a fine story. Excellent, even. Of course, since it's a short story, it is ... how did the idiot put it? I forget. Pointless? Lame?
It's twisted, man! But unimportant. Yes.
What I'd really like to ask is where all of her long, involved, plot-driven stories full of Joycean epiphanies are archived. ;)
Area 52?
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:)
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