Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents: Philip F. Kennedy/Marilyn Lawrence: Introduction - Wendy Doniger: Narrative Conventions and Rings of Recognition - Philip F. Kennedy: Islamic Recognitions: An Overview - Elizabeth Archibald: Non-recognition in Sir Triamour: The Reversal of Romance Expectations - Marilyn Lawrence: Recognition and Identity in Medieval Narrative: The Saracen Woman in the Anglo-Norman Epic Boeve de Haumtone - Jessica Waldoff: Recognition: A Challenge for Opera Studies - Terence Cave: Singing with Tigers: Recognition in Wilhelm Meister, Daniel Deronda, and Nights at the Circus - Richard Allen: Hitchcock, Knowledge, and Sexual Difference - Gina Welty Parkinson: Looking for Patterns in Static: Recognition, Reading, and Detecting in G.K. Chesterton and Paul Auster's City of Glass - Rebecca Carol Johnson: The Politics of Reading: Revolution and Recognition in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's In Search of Walid Masoud - Daniel Beaumont: The «Lone-Nut» Theory: Paranoia and Recognition in Contemporary American Fiction - Piero Boitani: Recognition: The Pain and Joy of Compassion - Marina Warner: Mirror-Readings: An Afterword.
