Odysseys of Recognition : : Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist /

Odysseys of Recognition : : Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist / / Ellwood Wiggins.

Literary recognition is a technical term for a climactic plot device. Odysseys of Recognition claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, E...

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Wiggins, Ellwood,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:New Studies in the Age of Goethe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (298 p.) :; 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Overview of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • A Note on Translations and Orthography
  • Introduction: Performing Recognition
  • Part I. Marking the Limits of Recognition: Between Aristotle and the Odyssey
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. “Just as the Name Itself Signifies”: Under the Sign of Nostalgia
  • CHAPTER TWO. “Recognition Is a Change”: Performance in Motion
  • CHAPTER THREE. “From Ignorance to Knowledge”: Penelope’s Poetological Epistemology
  • CHAPTER FOUR. “Into Friendship or Enmity”: An Ethics of Authentic Deception
  • CHAPTER FIVE. “For Those Bound for Good or Bad Fortune”: Casualties of Recognition
  • Part II. Outing Interiority: Modern Recognitions
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER SIX. Self-Knowledge between Plato and Shakespeare: Alcibiades I and Troilus and Cressida
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Metamorphoses of Recognition: Goethe’s “Fortunate Event”
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Epistemologies of Recognition: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris and the Spectacle of Catharsis
  • CHAPTER NINE. Politics of Recognition: Friends, Enemies, and Goethe’s Iphigenie
  • CHAPTER TEN. The Fate of Recognition: Kleist’s Penthesilea
  • Concluding Reflections: Signifying Silence in Blumenberg and Kafka
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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