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anagnorisis [ˌænəgˈnɒrɪsɪs] n pl -ses [-ˌsiːz] (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (in Greek tragedy) the recognition or discovery by the protagonist of the identity of some character or the nature of his own predicament, which leads to the resolution of the plot; denouement [from Greek: recognition] anagnorisis Classical Drama, recognition or discovery, as of a disguised character, one thought to be lost, or a critical fact. See also: DramaHow to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As in James,
the vision of life expressed in Baldwin's works is essentially a
tragic one, the same contained in two key elements of the Aristotelian
definition of the genre, anagnorisis and pathos, the latter not a
brutish, animal suffering, but suffering consciously paid as the price
of self-knowledge. The poem turns
towards its anagnorisis on the folly of this newcomer, who "amused
the Queen / with his zoo of shackled caciques" (18) while his
charges, were left in this new world, their ghostly presences haunting
their own and shared descendants of the Indios into the present day. Hence,
even Isabella's coming to recognize superior virtue in her own
experience is drawn into the production of her and her fellow
citizens' anagnorisis of the virtue that rules their political
superior. |
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