Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition
Discovery, Deliverance and Delusion
1st Edition
Published on 13. September 2016
368 pages
978-1-4744-1374-9 (ISBN)
Description
According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light-in the classic instance, a son discovers in horror that his wife is his mother and his children are his siblings. Aristotle coined the term 'anagnôrisis' for the concept. In this book Philip F. Kennedy shows how ''recognition'' is key to an understanding of how one reads values and meaning into, or out of, a story. He analyses texts and motifs fundamental to the Arabic literary tradition in five case studies: the Qur'an; the biography of Muhammad; Joseph in classical and medieval re-tellings; the 'deliverance from adversity' genre and picaresque narratives.
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Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A Cognitive Reading of the Qur?anic Story of Joseph
- 2 Joseph in the Life of Muhammad: Prophecy in Tafsır (Exegesis), Sırah (Biography) and Hadith (Tradition)
- 3 Joseph and his Avatars
- 4 Intertextuality and Reading: The Myth of Deliverance in al-Faraj ba?d al-Shiddah
- 5 Imposture and Allusion in the Picaresque Maqamah
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Anagnorisis in Arabic Falsafah
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
