discovery, deliverance and delusion Kennedy, Philip F. creator text bibliography stk Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2016 2016 monographic eng

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356 p. "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. 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. HKBU library Philip F. Kennedy. YT2025 M09 (Son of Jacob) Joseph In the Qurʼan (Son of Jacob) Joseph Arabic literature History and criticism Narration (Rhetoric) Recognition in literature Arabic literature Joseph (Son of Jacob) in the Qurʼan Narration (Rhetoric) Recognition in literature PJ7519 K34 R 2016 9781474413725 1474413722 SDU 161216