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Rethinking Epiphany – Perspectives from the Fringes 2024

Tampere University
LocationÅkerlundinkatu 5, 33100 Tampere
City Centre Campus, Virta-building, auditorium 109.
Date13.9.2024 9.00–19.00 (UTC+3)
LanguageEnglish
Entrance feeFree of charge
Tampere skyline
Welcome to the one-day Symposium!

In literature, epiphany is considered as the moment of revelation, illumination, or enlightenment of a fictional character. Epiphany has been associated particularly with modernist literature, and with the foregrounding of powerful moments of heightened significance in the works of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and their contemporaries. This symposium considers the legacy of such “moments of being” (Woolf 1939) and proposes new perspectives to challenge or enrich our understanding of modernist forms of epiphany. It is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of epiphanies, as well as in how perspectives from the fringes add to our understanding of epiphany.

For more information visit the conference web-site.

Organiser

Tampere University and Fringe Network, University of Alcalá, Narrare research center

Further information

Riikka Pirinen, riikka.pirinen@tuni.fi