#WordOfTheDay for Thursday, April 24, 2014 anagnorisis \ - TopicsExpress



          

#WordOfTheDay for Thursday, April 24, 2014 anagnorisis \ an-ag-NAWR-uh-sis, -NOHR- \ , noun; 1. (in ancient Greek tragedy) the critical moment of recognition or discovery, especially preceding peripeteia. In terms of anagnorisis , the mythic, tragic realisation that prophecies were correct is only really the case for fictional characters, yet it is a continually attractive idea for those of us who know that our lives dont have a plot. -- Alice Bennett, Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction , 2012 Tragedy and comedy both deal in errors of perception and their unveiling, a device known since the Greeks as anagnorisis . -- David Bellos, Jacques Tati , 1999 Anagnorisis comes from the Greek word anagnōrí(zein) which meant to know again. This concept is discussed in Aristotles Poetics .
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:22:48 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015