Word of the Day for Thursday 1st May 2014
Anagnorisis\ an-ag-NAWR-uh-sis, -NOHR- \,
noun;
1 (in ancient Greek tragedy) the critical moment of recognition or discovery,
especially preceding peripeteia.
Quotes:
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 don't 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 theGreeks as anagnorisis .
-- David Bellos, Jacques Tati , 1999
Origin:
Anagnorisis comes from the Greek word anagnōrí(zein) which meant "to
know again." This concept is discussed in Aristotle's Poetics .
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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