Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Brossura

Cave, Terence

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ISBN 10: 0198151632 ISBN 13: 9780198151630

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2004

Riassunto

Recognitions is about the most neglected strand of Aristotelian poetics - anagnorisis, or recognition. It is a topic that has conventionally had a bad press: the recognition scene is regarded as an implausible contrivance, a feeble way of resolving a plot the author can no longer control. But why do such scenes occur in every kind of drama and narrative fiction from the Odyssey and Oedipus to thrillers by Le Carré - and how is it they continue to surprise, amuse, and disturb?

Terence Cave's book first traces the history of the term anagnorisis and explores the ways in which it continues to be a valuable focus for theoretical reflection. Then, in a series of chapters analysing examples of recognition plots from English, French, and German literature, including Shakespeare, James, Conrad, Racine, Corneille, and Goethe, the book demonstrates how recognition must be seen as a topic of the first importance, perhaps the most strictly literary of all topics in poetics.

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Recensione:

Terence Cave ... writes like an artist. His mind is subtler than Vickers's, his erudition just as extensive ... Recognitions is a dazzling achievement. (The London Review of Books)

this is a book of infinite riches, giving considerable pleasure page by page - as a good cornucopian text should. I doubt whether a more interesting work of literary criticism will be published this year. (Times Literary Supplement)

before I attempt to summarize its intellectual and critical wealth let me say that this is a book of infinite riches, giving considerable pleasure page by page - as a good cornucopian text should. I doubt whether a more interesting work of literary criticism will be published this year. (Times Literary Supplement)

richly rewarding readings of individual texts (Times Literary Supplement)

a dazzling achievement (London Review of Books)

[a] learned and penetrating treatise... a very important contribution to the history of poetics and practical literary criticism alike... His book invites comparisons with Erich Auerbach's modern classical Mimesis ... Cave has taken another concept from the Poetics and applied it to representative texts from the whole of Western literary history. Like Mimesis and Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, Recognitions is one of the relatively few books that not only give new insights into individual works, but also restructure the whole history of literature and poetics. (Carl Rudbeck, Svenske Dagblader)

Admirers of The Cornucopian Text will not be disappointed by its successor. They will recognize here the same breadth of literary vision, the detailed scholarship and the subtle and personal probing of intractable issues that concern all readers... The subject is a splendid one, and it is strange that no one had previously devoted a book to it (Peter France, French Studies)

uniformly learned@ (English)

Because it is such a good book it leaves one eager for answers to some of the only partially answered questions ... a major contribution to scholarship which will have many repercussions. (C.P. Brand, Renaissance Studies)

fine and stimulating work (Rhetorica)

L'autore:

Terence Cave is at St John's College, Oxford.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0198151632
• ISBN 13: 9780198151630
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 552