Joyce, things a literary work should be:
whole
harmonious
radiant (epiphany)
Erin found James Joyce's definition for epiphany and where the notion was produced for Joyce, I have another here at The Literary Link.
Things to do, but not necessarily due:
- Revisit your English major experience (use Rian, Victoria, & ZuZu's blogs as models)
- Look back in your life and find works of literature that serve as epiphanies. Where are the 'ohs' and the 'ahs'?
- Read The Piper at the Gates of Dawn very carefully and make a definition of epiphany from reading the text. - everything becomes clear, the mystery drops away, everything though the same looks different than before.
We are beginning the class with inductive reasoning, starting with the text, then look/develop the definition of epiphany.
little epiphany 'oh', big epiphany 'ah!'
Wordsworth on epiphany: recollected in tranquility
Eliot - Dry Salvages -
"The moments of happiness-not the sense of well being,
Fruition, fulfilment, security or affection,
Or even a very good dinner, but the sudden illumination-"
-distinguish between the ohs & ahs
epiphanies - the experience, not the telling of the experience
talking about the good day you had skiing after you had the good day skiing, not while you are skiing. Be in the moment I suppose.
Show and tell in the 5th grade. What did you show and tell? Epiphanies are a showing, phanos - showing forth. I think I used my dog Maddie a golden retriever as my show and tell. And my friend Carly Brown used a conch shell from her trip to Hawaii.
We looked at definitions in glossaries Dr. Sexson provided, Pat and ZuZu read them, both were very similar: manifestation or showing forth, manifestation of a divine being, introduced by James Joyce.
Dr. Sexson's reply to Taylor: of course music is epiphanic
Eliot - Little Gidding
"A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)"
Eliot - Dry Salvages
"We had the experience but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experience
In a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness."
Adam refers to Karen Armstrong and the epiphany of the crops. Reminds me of my family's organic vegetable farm. Every year my Dad produces beautiful crops, which I then have to weed and harvest, then cart to Farmer's Market when I'm home for a visit in the summer. I wonder why my dad likes it so much, but I realize maybe it is the epiphany of the crops that he loves so much, and working with his hands.
Small part of the farm in Kalipsell:
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