Recognitions: A Study in Poetics

Introduction Odysseus' Scar 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 Thebaide 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 Translation of verse passages