Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction by Mleynek, Sherryll M.

Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820427720)

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Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction by Mleynek, Sherryll M.

Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction

$49.95
Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction by Mleynek, Sherryll M.

Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction

$49.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 postmodern 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.

Author: Sherryll M. Mleynek
ISBN-10: 0820427721
ISBN-13: 9780820427720
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1999
Pages: 140
Format: Hardcover
By Sherryll M. Mleynek
By Sherryll M. Mleynek
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The Author: Sherryll S. Mleynek is Associate Professor of English and a member of the Women's Studies faculty at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Irvine. Her research and publications are focused on the classical Greek and Hebrew intellectual traditions, and the ideologies and scope of influence of these traditions on British fiction.

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