Anagnorisis : : scenes and themes of recognition and revelation in Western literature / / Piero Boitani.

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�...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 204
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 204.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Anagnorisis
  • 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.