Anagnorisis refers to the moment a character experiences a reality-shifting realization. In Aristotle’s “Poetics”—the earliest scholarship on dramatic and literary theory—the philosopher refers to ...
Several philosophers (e.g., Ehring (Nous (Detroit, Mich.) 30: 461-480, 1996); Funkhouser (Nous (Detroit, Mich.) 40:548-569, 2006); Walter (Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37:217-244, 2007) have argued ...