More TRTR from Tanner using Cave's Recognitions

[Mark Kohut]

"Early recognition scenes invariably involved the revelation of true identity and the re-establsihment of
kin".....Ur figures, Oedipus and Odysseus"
 
"in New Comedy---The Recognitions is a comedy, yes?---the recognition is a disclosure to all of 'what has been
done' "....
 
"Clearly the notion of 'recognition' may be extended, or attenuated, so that the object recognized may be a relation, a state
of affairs, a fact, a higher order, a hidden law, a truth about Being, a truth about self, or something so elusive that you
lose it in the act of trying to find and speak it."....
 
I had wanted to look up in the OED and put down the prismatic meanings of 'recognitions'...now it is done better...
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