Epiphanies of the Exiles: Exile from the Heritage of Tradition

Tomasz Garbol

doi:10.18290/rh.2019.67.1-1en

Tomasz Garbol The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Humanities

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh.2019.67.1-1en

Keywords: literature as epiphany; exile; modernism; James Joyce; Czesław Miłosz; Zbigniew Herbert

Abstract

The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 61, issue 2 (2014).

The article is concerned with the function of the experience of exile that is a model for literary epiphanies. The starting point is showing the significance of this experience in James Joyce’s presentation of the epiphany that is formative for modern literature. Examples from Czesław Miłosz’s and Zbigniew Herbert’s works are material for interpreting two important reinterpretations of the epiphany based on the experience of exile.

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