Recognitions a Study in Poetics

ISBN-13: 9780198151630 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 544 str.

Terence Cave

Opis

Anagnorisis--recognition--is one of the least familiar terms in Aristotelian poetics, yet it is used to describe one of the most familiar features of drama and narrative fiction. This invaluable study by leading Renaissance scholar Terence Cave is the first to trace the history of the term and to explore its role in French, German, and English literature as a continuing focus for theoretical reflection.

Recenzje

Best ... it may be, to treat it ... as a thesaurus to dip into, and one would imagine that few readers could fail to learn something to their advantage by so doing.

Spis treści

Introduction; Odysseus' Scar; I: RECOGNITION IN THE HISTORY OF POETICS: Anagnorisis in antiquity; Renaissance commentaries; The decline of recognition: French neoclassicism; The decline of recognition: Eighteenth-century variants; Plots of the psyche; Modern commentary and criticism; Transition; II: RECOGNITION IN PRACTICE: A Shakespearean prologue; Corneille: the hero versus Oedipus; Between Corneille and Racine: La Thebaide; Racine: after Oedipus; From drama to narrative: Goethe and Kleist; Narrating recognition: Balzac and Dickens; Henry James: the Last Sharpness; Joseph Conrad: the Revenge of the Unknown; Conclusion: Beyond recognition; Translation of verse passages