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(2012) Literary epiphany in the novel, 1850–1950, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Like the glittering of a night sky, literary epiphany illuminates the individual character in his or her tracing of the spiritual. This itinerary takes distinct paths, invisibly drawn from point to point in shapes completed only by implication, irreducible to what is literally viewed, yet none other than what is seen. Luminous and unstable, epiphany easily vanishes into nonepiphany. It takes place within the commonplace and may, in restatement or representation, look trivial or mundane to others. Yet it also shows a character's profound witness to the truth of its being, a deep internalization that achieves the realization of character.
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Kim, S. (2012). Conclusion, in Literary epiphany in the novel, 1850–1950, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 145-149.
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