Odysseys of Recognition: Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist

by Ellwood Wiggins

Literary recognition is a technical term for a climactic plot device. Odysseys of Recognition claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity. Through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168448037X
• ISBN13: 9781684480371
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"