The use of Epiphany in the novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young

Man by James Joyce.

1: James Joyces elaborate introduction as a novelist and also to throw ample light on his life & his
prominent literary contributions.
2: The literary definition of epiphany (its etymological meaning) and also its literary interpretation with
reference to the novel(various interpretations).
3: Critical comments to be added by some eminent critics upon the use of epiphany by James Joyce to
support his innovative technique.
4: The use of epiphanical technique with reference to the modernist era & also the description of the
development of epiphanical merit.
5: Joyces association(close affinity) with his other contemporaries in the use of epiphany & their critical
remarks on it for better elucidation.
6: Implications of the epiphanical moments in the novel and its effects in the development of the
protagonist, Stephen Deadalus (his spiritual & intellectual development).
7: The mythic effects of epiphany and its close assimilation(resemblance) to the Greek Myth of
epiphanical (which has also many close traces with Stephen).
8: Joyces attempt to allude the imagist writers in the development of his said technique(epiphany) and
a critical comment of any imagist writer.
9: The use of epiphany as a solid source of spiritual & psychological betterment of the protagonists
character and his understanding of the outer world.
10: Epiphanical moments act as bloodline(lifeline) for the amelioration(betterment) of the heros
inherent defects, innocuous thinking and degrading drawbacks.
11: Affiliation of the epiphanical revelations with the motifs & symbols (its interpretation through
rampant symbols) and the symbolic imagery of the novel by the auther.
12: A crystal clear conclusion epitomizing all the aforementioned salient features & pressing points &
the declaration of the consequent of this techniques.