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Anagnorisis has been called 'one of the great works of comparative literary criticism of our time'. It is a book that spans the millennia, the adventures of Ulysses in Homer and God's mysterious appearance to Abraham in Genesis, down not only to Joyce's Ulysses and Thomas Mann's Joseph and his Brothers , but also to Dumas' Count of Montecristo , Borges's 'The Immortal', and Walcott's Omeros. 'Anagnorisis' means 'recognition'. Aristotle defined it simply as 'the passage from ignorance to knowledge'. But the knowledge one gains in anagnorisis is neither scientific nor abstract - it is living knowledge in the flesh, as Euripides' Helen understood when, seeing her husband again after many years, she exclaimed: 'to recognize those we love is a god.

Literature --- Recognition in literature --- History and criticism

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The core of this book is an investigation of the treatment of the recognition motif in the Greek novels. It also includes forays into the Roman novels, early Jewish and Christian narratives, and an overview of a sample of early modern European texts, which have been influenced by the ancient novel in their recognition scenes.

Greek fiction --- Latin fiction --- Recognition in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Recognition in literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Letteratura --- Littérature italienne --- Temi [:] Riconoscimento --- Littérature italienne.

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Love in literature. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Recognition in literature. --- Sophocles. --- Euripides. --- Sophocle, --- Euripide,

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Bible and literature --- Narration in the Bible --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Recognition in literature --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.