Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema: Arts and Humanities for Sustainable Well-being

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Bradley Lewis

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema

Arts and Humanities for Sustainable Well-being

Bradley Lewis

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Routledge
09 July 2024

Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health humanities and psychological humanities to explore literary and cinematic epiphanies. James Joyce first adopted the term “epiphany” from its religious use to articulate momentsof 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 Ruth Ozeki and from Yasujirō Ozu to Jim Jarmusch. This wealth of epiphanies in the arts is important from a health humanities perspective in that they provide access to aesthetic and sustainable experiences of well-being, 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 well-being in contemporary times, and it uses affirmation to develop underutilized resources in the arts for transforming, configuring, and refiguring our everyday lives.

By: Bradley Lewis
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032294483
ISBN 10: 1032294485
Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 09 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.