Knowledge and mortality

Name: Knowledge and mortality
Author: Sherryll S. Mleynek
ISBN: 0820427721

by Sherryll S. Mleynek (1999)

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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 "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.

Setting / LocationGlobal

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / CoreKnowledge and mortality Lead Character

Themes & Moods

History Fiction Mortality in literature History and criticism Recognition in literature Knowledge, Theory of, in literature Modern Era

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