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Epipanies in the works of James Joyce are central to his own understanding of the nature of art and the function of the artist. Joyce’s epiphany has developed primarily through Stephen Hero, A Portrait Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. Epiphany directly influenced the method of his writing and, as Walzl suggests, Dubliners is the result of this influence. Joyce adopted the concept of the epiphany from Catholic doctrines but amended its meaning for artistic purposes. Epiphany is a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. It is a formulation through metaphor or symbol of some luminous aspects of human experience. For his artistic purpose, Joyce used epiphanies more consciously and with greater variation than any other writers. Consequently, epiphany provides not only a means for the artist Joyce to create, but also a way of establishing his own artistic theory.
