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    • Author/Creator:Kennedy, Philip F., author.
    • Title:Recognition in the Arabic narrative tradition : discovery, deliverance and delusion / Philip F. Kennedy.
    • ISBN:9781474413725 (hardback)
      1474413722 (hardback)
      9781474413732 (webready PDF)
      9781474413749 (epub)
    • Publication:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
    • Copyright notice date: ©2016
    • Physical Description:xi, 356 pages ; 25 cm.

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    • Summary:"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"--Back cover.
    • Format:Book
    • Series:Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature
      Edinburgh studies in classical Arabic literature.
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
    • Contents:A cognitive reading of the Qur'ānic story of Joseph -- Joseph in the Life of Muḥammad : prophecy in Tafsīr (exegesis), Sīrah (biography) and Ḥadīth (tradition) -- Joseph and his avatars -- Intertextuality and reading : the myth of deliverance in al-Faraj ba'd al-Shiddah -- Imposture and allusion in the picaresque maqāmah.
    • Subjects:Joseph (Son of Jacob)--In the Qurʼan.
      Joseph (Son of Jacob)
      Arabic literature--History and criticism.
      Narration (Rhetoric)
      Recognition in literature.
      Arabic literature.
      Joseph (Son of Jacob) in the Qurʼan.
      Narration (Rhetoric)
      Recognition in literature.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13099711