Patterns of epiphany : from Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning / by Bidney, Martin, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : how epiphanies are made -- A pilgrim's dream of apocalypse : radiant geometry in Wordsworthian epiphanies -- Fitful motions, fragil forms : elemental conflict in Coleridge -- Duplicitous welcomers : water-fire epiphanies in Arnold -- Love and liminality in Tennyson : the aweful dawn-rose and the wheel -- Beauty and pain in Pater : the red-yellow fire flower, the dying white bird -- Epiphanies from Odin to Teufelsdrockh : Carlylean heroism and the gospel of fire -- Water, movement, roundness : epiphanies and history in Tolstoy's War and peace -- Turning stones to fire : the apocalypse according to Barrett Browning -- Conclusion : fifteen theses.…”
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