Knowledge and mortality
anagnorisis in Genesis and narrative fiction
by Sherryll S. Mleynek
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Knowledge and mortality: anagnorisis in Genesis and narrative fiction
1999, P. Lang, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
in English
0820427721 9780820427720
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-133) and index.
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