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Publication details [#15034]

Friedrich, Paul. 2001. Lyric epiphany. Language in Society 30 (2) : 217–247.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

poetics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

After an outline of the study of lyric epiphany, four instances of linguistic epiphany in "The Odyssey" are analyzed. It is concluded that lyric epiphany features universal, cross-language and cross-cultural aspects which may yield important insights into language and society.