TRTR...still wracking around the edifice
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 11 06:45:18 CDT 2011
Again, Tony Tanner, famous early appreciator of The Recognitions--his words on TR are the whole back cover
of J.R. the first hardcover edition,--- in his prefaces to Shakespeare sez:
"the Greek words for reader and recognition are close: 'anagnostes' and 'anagnorisis'............
He speaks of the special importance of 'recognition' in the [late] Romances but then goes on to say he
has to talk about its more general centrality for literature....and cites a book on just that: "Terence Cave's
fine book, Recognitions" (!)......
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