Recognition: The Poetics of Narrative : Interdisciplinary Studies on Anagnorisis

by Kennedy, Philip F.; Lawrence, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9781433102561
• ISBN10: 1433102560
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

An interdisciplinary collection of essays, this book advances the study of anagnorisis ("recognition"), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. The volume 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Narrative Conventions and Rings of Recognition	p. 13
Islamic Recognitions: An Overview	p. 26
Non-recognition in Sir Triamour: The Reversal of Romance Expectations	p. 62
Recognition and Identity in Medieval Narrative: The Saracen Woman in the Anglo-Norman Epic Boeve de Haumtone	p. 81
Recognition: A Challenge for Opera Studies	p. 97
Singing with Tigers: Recognition in Wilhelm Meister, Daniel Deronda, and Nights at the Circus	p. 115
Hitchcock, Knowledge, and Sexual Difference	p. 135
Looking for Patterns in Static: Recognition, Reading, and Detecting in G.K. Chesterton and Paul Auster's City of Glass	p. 163
The Politics of Reading: Revolution and Recognition in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's In Search of Walid Masoud	p. 178
The "Lone-Nut" Theory: Paranoia and Recognition in Contemporary American Fiction	p. 193
Recognition: The Pain and Joy of Compassion	p. 213
Mirror-Readings: An Afterword	p. 227
Contributors	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 253
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