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==Definition== # A manifestation, revelation, or perceptible appearance of time itself; a moment in which the passage, weight, depth, or structure of time becomes unusually tangible to human awareness. # ''(Literary & musical theory)'' A moment within a work of art, particularly music or poetry, where the underlying movement, pulse, or passage of time is brought directly into the audience's consciousness.<ref name="Kramer1984">{{cite book |last=Kramer |first=Lawrence |title=Music and Poetry, the Nineteenth Century and After |year=1984 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=0520048733 |pages=226β228}}</ref> # A structural discontinuity or "disorienting gap" in a composition that exposes the pure temporal flow of the work, forcing the audience to confront the presence of time itself.<ref name="Kramer1984" /> # ''(Psychological context)'' An artistic mechanism where a disruption in the flow of a work serves to reflect the continuous inner identity, or ego, of its creator.<ref name="Kramer1984" />
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