Recognitions: A Study in Poetics
1988, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432099
ISBN: 0198158491
Physical description; xiii, 530 p. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 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 Thébaïde -- 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. Subjects; Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.). Recognition in literature. Literature Philosophy. Poetics. Literature. Literature Theories.
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