Anagnorisis: Scenes and Themes of Recognition and Revelation in Western Literature (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

Boitani, Piero

Brill（2021/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 460 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004453661
• DDC分類 809.9335

Full Description

Anagnorisis has been called 'one of the great works of comparative literary criticism of our time'. It 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 Dumas' Count of Montecristo, Borges's 'The Immortal', and Walcott's 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.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Texts, Translations, Bibliography, and Style

Introduction

1 Cinderella and the Greeks

2 Aristotle and the Philosophy of Anagnorisis

3 Re-Cognition, Reading, and Reconnaissance

1 Odysseus, Ulysses, Nobody

 The Universe of Recognition

2 Reason

 Electra and Hamlet

3 Towards Nothingness

 Oedipus and Lear

4 Recognizing God

5 To Recognize Is a God

Helen, Magdalen, Hermione, Marina - Menuchim

6 A Spark of Love

 Medieval Recognitions

7 I know the Signs of the Ancient Flame

 Dante's Recognitions

8 Are You Here?

 Brunetto, Dante, and Eliot

9 Through Time and Space

 Intertextual Recognition

10 To Conclude and Re-Cognize

 The Pain and Joy of Compassion

 Index