Panepiphanal World : James Joyce's Epiphanies

Panepiphanal World is the first in-depth study of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Composed between 1901 and 1904, at the beginning of Joyce's writing career, these texts are often dismissed as juvenilia. Sangam MacDuff argues that the epiphanies are an important...

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Main Author: MacDuff, Sangam (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Gainesville, Fl University Press of Florida 2020
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