Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction: 56 - Rilegato

Mleynek, Sherryll S.

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ISBN 10: 0820427721 ISBN 13: 9780820427720

Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Aristotle identifies "the transformation from ignorance to knowledge," or anagnorisis, as crucial to dramatic tension. Using the Biblical "garden" as the locus classicus of anagnorisis in Western narrative fiction, this study establishes the connection between knowledge and mortality in Genesis, and analyzes anagnorisis and mortality in three nineteenth-century British novels, Middlemarch, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Pride and Prejudice, and in the "post-modern" novel Possession. Ultimately, it is a proof that the suffusing literary motif of "knowledge and mortality" is inescapable: it transcends fictional genre and period because the "knowledge of mortality" is humanity's most ontologically disturbing burden.

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L'autore:

Sherryll S. Mleynek is Associate Professor of English and a member of the Women's Studies faculty at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

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Book by Mleynek Sherryll S

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0820427721
• ISBN 13: 9780820427720
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 140