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Anagnorisis: Scenes and Themes of Recognition and Revelation in Western Literature
Piero Boitani
出版
BRILL
, 2021-03-22
主題
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / General
ISBN
9004453679
9789004453678
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jrMlEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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
.