| 英文摘要 |
In his article on epiphany Robert Langbaum has usefully distinguished two forms of visionary experience: epiphany as a modern mode and traditional vision. The lines from 'The World' by the seventeenth-century poet Vaughan, 'I saw eternity the other night/like a great ring of pure and endless light,' are in Langbaum's opinion illustrative of vision, because therein 'nothing is physically sensed.' On the contrary, he detects in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Wordsworth's Prelude, and Joyce's various works an abundance of epiphanies working from realistic bases and through carefully arranged psychological association. In all he has come up with half a dozen criteria for epiphany. He endorses Morris Beja's contention that modern epiphany is characterized by the irrelevance or insignificance of the events or objects that trigger it. He adds that an 'epiphanic leap' is necessary to derive a coherent significance from the fragmented array of the events or objects. |
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