Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story: Italian and English Perspectives

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Understanding the Modernist Epiphany
	I.1 Theories of the Modernist Epiphany
	I.2 Literary Rendering
	I.3 The Modern Short Story
	I.4 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
	2.2 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
Conclusion
Index of Names and Works Cited