Research Catalog

Title

Recognition : the poetics of narrative : interdisciplinary studies on anagnorisis / edited by Philip F. Kennedy and Marilyn Lawrence.

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kennedy, Philip F.
• Lawrence, Marilyn.

Description

vi, 263 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis ("recognition"), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and epistemology by examining how anagnorisis works in narrative fiction, music, and film. Contributors hail from the fields of cinema; opera; religion; medieval and modern English, German, and French literatures; comparative literature; and Indian (Sanskrit) and Islamic (Arabic) literatures, both classical and modern." --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies on themes and motifs in literature, 1056-3970 ; v. 96

Uniform Title

Studies on themes and motifs in literature v. 96.

Subject

Recognition in literature

Genre/Form

Electronic books

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Philip F. Kennedy and Marilyn Lawrence -- Narrative conventions and rings of recognition / Wendy Doniger -- Islamic recognitions: an overview / Philip F. Kennedy -- Non-recognition in Sir Triamour: the reversal of romance expectations / Elizabeth Archibald -- Recognition and identity in medieval narrative: the Saracen woman in the Anglo-Norman epic Boeve de Haumtone / Marilyn Lawrence -- Recognition: a challenge for opera studies / Jessica Waldoff -- Singing with tigers: recognition in Wilhelm Meister, Daniel Deronda, and Nights at the circus / Terence Cave -- Hitchcock, knowledge, and sexual difference / Richard Allen -- Looking for patterns in static: recognition, reading, and detecting in G.K. Chesterton and Paul Auster's City of glass / Gina Welty Parkinson -- The politics of reading: revolution and recognition in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's In search of Walid Masoud / Rebecca Carol Johnson -- The "lone-nut" theory: paranoia and recognition in contemporary American fiction / Daniel Beaumont -- Recognition: the pain and joy of compassion / Piero Boitani -- Mirror-readings: an afterward / Marina Warner.

ISBN

• 9781433102561 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1433102560 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008035929

OCLC

• 244246630
• SCSB-12282699

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library