Experiencing epiphanies in literature and cinema arts and humanities for sustainable well-being / Bradley Lewis.
| Author/creator | Lewis, Bradley, 1956- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in literature and health humanities |
| Contents | Introduction: Artistic epiphanies and arts for health -- Experiencing epiphanies : James Joyce, modern secularity, and "the dead" -- Epiphanies before Joyce : Hamlet -- Epiphanies before Joyce : Wordsworth to Chekhov -- Epiphanies after Joyce : Woolf to Ozeki -- Epiphanies in post-WWII European art cinema -- Transcendental style and slow cinema -- Conclusion: Sustainable well-being in practice : Paterson, one window's light, and shared reading. |
| Abstract | "Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and cinematic epiphanies. James Joyce first adopted the term "epiphany" from religious use to articulate moments in secular literature of luminous intensity or "sudden spiritual manifestation." This study develops and extends Joyce's use of epiphany through a range of literary and cinematic examples, from William Shakespeare to Sonia Sanchez and from Yasujirō Ozu to Jim Jarmusch. This wealth of epiphanies in the arts are important from a health humanities perspective in that they provide access to aesthetic experiences of wellbeing, joy, and human flowering. They also provide antidotes to aesthetics of anti-epiphany-a showing forth of terror, horror, and panic. Experiencing Epiphanies is accordingly both critical and affirmative, diagnostic and therapeutic. It uses critique to understand the increasing need for wellbeing in contemporary times, and it uses affirmation to develop underutilized resources in the arts for transforming, configuring and refiguring, our everyday lives"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Lewis, Bradley, 1956- Experiencing epiphanies in literature and cinema New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024 9781032294483 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024015706 |
| ISBN | 9781003301639 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |