Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema

Arts and Humanities for Sustainable Well-being

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Bradley Lewis

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Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities

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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.

Author Biography:

Bradley Lewis, MD, PhD has dual degrees in psychiatry and interdisciplinary humanities. He is a practicing psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and professor of health humanities and cultural/disability studies at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He works at the interface of psychiatry, healthcare, humanities, arts, mad studies, disability studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. His books include Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Practice and Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Mad Studies Reader.

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July 9th, 2024

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