TRTR Back to recogging The Recognitions

[Mark Kohut]

"How humiliating is ths discovery!", she [Austen's Emma] exclaimed to herself, "Yet, how just a humiliation!"
and it was then, and only then, that she made her climactic discovery: "Till this moment I never knew myself."
 
In drama this is known as the moment of recognition. [see Oedipus, King Lear, ec.]
                                    from A jane Austen Education
 
Essay topic: that the humiliating ways almost everybody acts in The Recognitions is because almost none of
them really 'know' themselves. ......from Gaddis's pov....They do not have this 'recognition'......ever....
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