Watch "At Misquamicut Beach in Rhode Island today" on YouTube A scene for a Joycean " epiphany " even in old age ? Here just the beauty of the ocean panorama in front of me

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It struck me as a scene for a Joycean " epiphany " : THE ART OF THE EPIPHANY Sandra Carroll In what follows I want to discuss one particular scene in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I want to examine the Joycean concept of epiphany which I believe to be closely linked with Impressionistic art and I shall conclude with some remarks about the representation of women that informs Joyce's writing. In the passage at the end of chapter IV in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus watches a girl in the river: [" A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird..... ... But her long fair hair was girlish: and girlish, and touched with the wonder of mortal beauty, her face. She was alone and still, gazing out to sea; and when she felt his presence and the worship of his eyes her eyes turned to him in quiet sufferance of his gaze, without shame or wantonness. Long, long she suffered his gaze and then quietly withdrew her eyes from his and bent them towards the stream, gently stirring the water with her foot hither and thither. The first faint noise of gently moving water broke the silence, low and faint and whispering, faint as the bells of sleep; hither and thither, hither and thither; and a faint flame trembled on her cheek. "]