Literary notes about Recognition (AI summary)
In literature, the term recognition plays a versatile role—from depicting the moment of sudden, personal identification, as when a look or smile sparks an intimate understanding ([1], [2], [3]), to signifying formal acknowledgment of services, rights, or achievements ([4], [5], [6]). It is employed in plot development, marking dramatic reversals or turning points ([7], [8], [9]), while also emphasizing the internal struggle for validation or the fear of being unmistakably perceived ([10], [11], [12]). Moreover, it appears as a tool for both concrete and abstract commentary on social, legal, or psychological states, weaving together themes of familiarity, duty, and change throughout the narrative fabric of a work ([13], [14], [15]).
- He must have felt that shock of recognition in her for he looked up and met her eyes.
— from Bliss, and other stories by Katherine Mansfield - she cried, clapping her hands with a bright smile of recognition, "another old friend found already!
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - Mitchell had simply touched his hat, as to an equal, with a quiet look of thorough recognition.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis - [The abandonment of the policy of escheat or lapse, and the recognition of the right of adoption were announced by Lord Canning in 1859.] 2 .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 by James Tod - His services and qualifications are eminently deserving of this recognition.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - This recognition of this right is the price of my allegiance.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - Two parts, then, of the Plot—Reversal of the Situation and Recognition—turn upon surprises.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle - Thus in the recognition of Odysseus by his scar, the discovery is made in one way by the nurse, in another by the swineherds.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle - Thus Iphigenia is revealed to Orestes by the sending of the letter; but another act of recognition is required to make Orestes known to Iphigenia.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle - He left you without saying a word as soon as the day began to dawn, his motive being fear of recognition.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Favors rendered, in order to have any claims to recognition, must be disinterested.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal - Isn't that enough to change a man beyond all recognition?"
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood - This explanation is a very tempting one where the phenomenon of recognition is reduced to its simplest terms.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Recognition indicates only that an object has sufficiently impressed a mind to keep it known and identifiable.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - Between fetichism and Christian faith there is a great distance, but a great affinity—the recognition of a supra-sensible life."
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis
