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Anagnorisis : scenes and themes of recognition and revelation in western literature
- Title
- Anagnorisis : scenes and themes of recognition and revelation in western literature / by Piero Boitani.
- Author
- Boitani, Piero
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 459 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Anagnorisis has been called 'one of the great works of comparative literary criticism of our time' is a book that spans the millennia, the adventures of Ulysses in Homer and God's mysterious appearance to Abraham in Genesis, down not only to Joyce's Ulysses and Thomas Mann's Joseph and his Brothers, but also to Borges's 'The Immortal' and Derek Walcott Omeros. 'Anagnorisis' means 'recognition'. Aristotle defined it simply as 'the passage from ignorance to knowledge'. But the knowledge one gains in anagnorisis is neither scientific nor abstract - it is living knowledge in the flesh, as Euripides' Helen understood when, seeing her husband again after many years, she exclaimed: 'to recognize those we love is a god"--
- Series Statement
- Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; volume 204
- Uniform Title
- Riconoscere è un dio. English
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 204.
- Alternative Title
- Riconoscere è un dio.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8163
- ISBN
- 9789004453661
- 9004453660
- LCCN
- 2020056587
- OCLC
- 1228031390
- Author
- Boitani, Piero, author.
- Title
- Anagnorisis : scenes and themes of recognition and revelation in western literature / by Piero Boitani.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; volume 204Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 204.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Boitani, Piero, Anagnorisis: scenes and themes of recognition and revelation in western literature Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021] 9789004453678 (DLC) 2020056588
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8163