Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Narrative Conventions and Rings of Recognition -- Islamic Recognitions: An Overview -- Non-recognition in The Reversal of Romance Expectations -- Recognition and Identity in Medieval Narrative: The Saracen Woman in the Anglo- Norman Epic Boeve de Haumtone -- Recognition: A Challenge for Opera Studies -- Singing with Tigers: Recognition in Wilhelm Meister, Daniel Deronda, And Nights at the Circus -- Hitchcock, Knowledge, and Sexual Difference -- Looking for Patterns in Static : Recognition, Reading, and Detecting in G. K. Chesterton and Paul Auster's City of Glass -- The Politics of Reading: Revolution and Recognition in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's In Search of Walid Masoud -- The "Lone-Nut" Theory: Paranoia and Recognition in Contemporary American Fiction -- Recognition: The Pain and Joy of Compassion -- Mirror-Readings: An Afterword -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.