Kairosis was a term derived from a usage by which British literary critic?
Kairosis Kairosis is the literary effect of fulfillment in time. This effect is normally associated with the epic/novel genre of literature, and can be understood by the analogy "as "catharsis" is to the dramatic, so "kenosis" is to the lyric, so "kairosis" is to the epic/novel." It is derived from Kermode's usage of kairos in literary aesthetics, and is part of an ongoing debate within literary aesthetics about the limitations of the rhetorical use of the term kairos.
Geoffrey Kirk Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, DSC, FBA ( ; 3 December 1921 – 10 March 2003) was an English classicist known for his writings on Ancient Greek literature and mythology. He was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 1974 to 1984.