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Recognitions - A Study in Poetics (Paperback, Revised)
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Recognitions - A Study in Poetics (Paperback, Revised)
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Recognitions is about the most neglected strand of Aristotelian
poetics - anagnorisis, or recognition. It is a topic that has
conventionally had a bad press: the recognition scene is regarded
as an implausible contrivance, a feeble way of resolving a plot the
author can no longer control. But why do such scenes occur in every
kind of drama and narrative fiction from the Odyssey and Oedipus to
thrillers by Le Carre - and how is it they continue to surprise,
amuse, and disturb? Terence Cave's book first traces the history of
the term anagnorisis and explores the ways in which it continues to
be a valuable focus for theoretical reflection. Then, in a series
of chapters analysing examples of recognition plots from English,
French, and German literature, including Shakespeare, James,
Conrad, Racine, Corneille, and Goethe, the book demonstrates how
recognition must be seen as a topic of the first importance,
perhaps the most strictly literary of all topics in poetics.
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