This is perhaps implicit and incipient in Homer and Virgil, since the journey to the underworld in each case encloses a revelation that illuminates the meaning of everything else and orients the protagonist's subsequent life in the world up to his death.
She is a rare memoirist who focuses on her mentors' physical and spiritual leaps rather than on herself; her guileless revelations illuminate what went right and wrong in Cunningham and Cage's personal dealings, as well as in their fight for survival.
In this new work from the Irish Rep, the playwright Nate Rufus Edelman makes especially fine use of the latter, illuminating it as a space of revelation and fabrication, of folly and sincerity, of piety and flirtation.
Brassaï's photographs of the Paris underworld illuminated by artificial light were a revelation, and the compilation of the series that he published, Paris After Dark (1933), was a major success.
The project illuminated some amazing new revelations about life underwater, soon to be published in a series of 12 scientific papers.
"The journals also illuminate Dickens's connections both professional and familial; the revelation that Dickens's sons and son-in-law were contributors was particularly surprising," he added.
A flash will illuminate startling detail, a rumble will bring a fierce revelation, a philosophy, a big picture". The two republished novels, along with Savage's final 1988 book, remain in print.
But there was glory too in bearing witness once again to Shakespeare's overwhelming powers of revelation, and the capacity of the world's great actors to illuminate them.
The light illuminating the scene has been described as "so brilliant it could only be the light of revelation".
It was a revelation: astonishingly fresh, clear, and relevant, not only explaining the rapid collapse of France in 1940, but also illuminating some of the difficulties that France and other European countries still have in absorbing "foreigners" even today.
