• Nawal Nagi

The aesthetic tradition, a typical affiliate of which being James Joyce, envisages the conversion of the everyday into aesthetic art, and it is here where the roots of Joyce’s epiphanies can be traced to. This paper examines the understanding of the word “epiphany” and scrutinises the same in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, typically analysing the everyday experiences of the protagonist which lead to such ‘revelations’. It discusses the characteristic of the epiphany to universalize predicament by converting it to timeless art, and yet remain essentially subjective. The paper therefore, attempts to uncover that it is in this dialectical process that the essence of the epiphany truly lies.

epiphany, revelation, imagery, Joyce

"Epiphanies in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.156-157, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812924.pdf

"Epiphanies in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp156-157, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812924.pdf