{"product_id":"knowledge-and-mortality-sherryll-m-mleynek-9780820427720","title":"Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction","description":"Aristotle identifies  the transformation from ignorance to knowledge,   or \u003ci\u003eanagnorisis\u003c\/i\u003e as crucial to dramatic tension. Using the Biblical  garden  as the \u003ci\u003elocus classicus\u003c\/i\u003e of \u003ci\u003eanagnorisis\u003c\/i\u003e in Western narrative fiction, this study establishes the connection between knowledge and mortality in Genesis, and analyzes \u003ci\u003eanagnorisis\u003c\/i\u003e and mortality in three nineteenth-century British novels, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch, Tess of the d'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e, and in the  postmodern  novel \u003ci\u003ePossession\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sherryll M. Mleynek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820427721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820427720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sherryll M. Mleynek","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241121198335,"sku":"9780820427720","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b969554a-3aca-40bd-9e52-8ac540618120.jpg?v=1772652841","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/knowledge-and-mortality-sherryll-m-mleynek-9780820427720","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}