...This chapter examines the most convincing affinities in terms of Woolf and Heidegger’s understandings of Being-in-the-world. Drawing attention to Woolf and Heidegger’s respective notions of ‘moments of Being’ and ‘moments of vision’, the ways in which such moments are triggered by particular moods...

.... The discussion then examines Virginia Woolf's own version of the epiphany, or the ‘moments of being’, which is less absolute than Joyce's. ambition Hardy Thomas Joyce James knowledge sex subjectivity Woolf Virginia death desire love mortality synaesthesia transcendence Ellmann Richard epiphany...