The term is often discussed along with Aristotle's concept of anagnorisis.

We left the first half of the series with a moment of gripping anagnorisis.

The term "anagnorisis" refers to the moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery.

The light could not finally hit him like a blow, bringing the kind of recognition (anagnorisis) that strikes a hero's eyes out.

Aristotle considered anagnorisis, leading to peripeteia, the mark of a superior tragedy.

Aristotle was the first writer to discuss the uses of anagnorisis, with peripeteia caused by it.

There they find a woman with very long hair and a ghostly appearance that Tupac finally recognizes as his sister in a moment of anagnorisis.

When Sorella recounts this face-off, it's also intended as a moment of recognition, an anagnorisis, for the narrator.

Sariola was founded by E.Konny and Anagnorisis in the year 2005.

It kind of morphed a little bit away from it, but in our short form in the room, we always called it the anagnorisis scene.

In Poetics, Aristotle discusses many key concepts of drama, such as anagnorisis and catharsis.

Each object has a 'telos' (a goal) which is its own perfection (individual destiny -- anagnorisis).

At this moment of recognition, or anagnorisis, Euarchus is devastated, but decides that justice trumps kinship, and with a heavy heart confirms their death sentence.

He eventually achieves his own anagnorisis and self-knowledge, expressing sorrow over his complicity with Norsefire's atrocities.

An extensive account of the history and application of anagnorisis is provided by Terence Cave in his book Recognitions.

Since year 2008, Anagnorisis works on some electronic projects (EBM, electro-industrial, psy trance).

The narrators in his poems are sometimes famous people, biblical or historical figures and sometimes ordinary people at a point of epiphany or anagnorisis.

When a character learns something he had been previously ignorant of, this is normally distinguished from peripeteia as anagnorisis or discovery, a distinction derived from Aristotle's work.

Leonard Chang, one of the writers, came up with this idea from Aristotle - I believe it was in Poetics - which is a scene of anagnorisis.

Anagnorisis went to the parlour studios (where bands like Napalm Death an the Exploited produced their work) in Kettering, UK to record guitars.

Aristotle considered these complex plots superior to simple plots without anagnorisis or peripeteia, such as when Medea resolves to kill her children, knowing they are her children, and does so.

Another well known example of anagnorisis from popular culture is the revelation that Darth Vader is the father of Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back.

We now need the anagnorisis - the moment of recognition that Greece would be better off in a state of Byronic liberation, forging a new economic identity with a New Drachma.

In addition, the tragic hero may achieve some revelation or recognition (anagnorisis--"knowing again" or "knowing back" or "knowing throughout") about human fate, destiny, and the will of the gods.

How I feel your Pain: Lessing's Mitleid, Goethe's Anagnorisis, Fontane's Quiet Perversion," in: Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift, 2008 "