In One Ear: Turner in Tibet

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Laurie Hovell McMillin

Published:

2001

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan US

So Bogle's texts are not the place to look for epiphany—at least not in the sense of a single moment of revelation, not in the sense of a "regrasping-of-life scene" in which all becomes clear.i This form of epiphany did not gain prominence as a textual convention in secular texts until the mid-nineteenth century, having first been borrowed and refurbished from religious biographies and autobiographies. It is not until the 1910 account by Francis Younghusband, India and Tibet, that a full-fledged epiphany appears in a travel text on Tibet. Whereas Bogle's texts refuse resolution-and thus skirt epiphany in the conventional sense-when epiphany appears inYounghusband's account it serves to resolve things. And while the images of Bogle we have explored do not come together to create a unified being, epiphany as it is later expressed serves to make coherent selves.KeywordsGovernor GeneralTextual ConventionTranscendent ConsciousnessWide Open SpaceImperial ProjectThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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