The Bible and the reader : an introduction to literary criticism / Edgar V. McKnight.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• McKnight, Edgar V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Bible--Hermeneutics.
• Bible.
• Hermeneutics.
• Bible as literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 147 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Fortress Press, [1985]

Contents:

• Dogmatic Interpretation
• Historical-Critical Method
• A New Context for Interpretation
• 1. The contours and Convergence of Bibilical and Literary Criticism
• History and Principles of Literary Criticism
• The coordinates of a Literary Work of art
• Criticism and History
• Hermeneutic Criticism
• A Literary-Oriented Bibilical Criticism
• A new Situation in Bibilical Critisism
• Bultman's Existential Approach
• Reading The Bible as Literature
• History in Literary Study of the Bible
• Postmodernism and Bibilical Interpretation
• 2. The Formalist- Structuralist Tradition
• Russian Formalism
• Structure and the Reader
• Sergei Bernstejn
• Jurij Tynjanove
• jan Mukarovsky Czech Structuralism
• The Organization of the work of Art
• Social Codes
• The Individual in Aesthetic Evaluation
• Roman Ingarden: Phenonomogical Approach
• The Sratified Nature of the work of Art
• Concretization
• Function and Cognition
• The Life of Literary work
• Felix Vodicka: Later Czech Structuralism
• Litereray History and concretization
• Interdependence of Factors in
• The Structuring of a work of Art
• Jurij Lotman : Soviet Semiotics
• The Structure and Function of Literary Texts
• The Role of the reader
• Processing a Text
• Meaning and Interpretation.
• 3. Narratology
• Vladimir Propp: Systematic Analysis
• Claude Levi-Strauss: Paradigmatic Analysis
• A.J. Greimas: accommodation of different Approaches
• Claude Bremond
• Tzvetan Todorov
• Roland Barthes
• Text Processing
• Componets in Text Processing
• Janos S. Petofi
• Gotz Wienold
• Siegfried J. Schmidt
• Text Processing in American Studies
• Schema Theory
• The History of Reception and Effect
• The Aesthetics of Reception
• Hans Robert Jauss
• The Aesthetics of Response: Wolfgang Iser
• 4. The American Context
• Derrida and the American Derrideans: Deconstruction
• Use of Deconstruction in Literary Study
• Varities of Deconstruction
• Values Of Deconstruction for Bibilical Critisism
• Validity in Interpretation : E.D. Hirsch
• valid Interpretation
• The Role of the Reader
• Rhetorical and Psychoanalytic Approaches
• Rhetorical Approach of Wayne C. Booth
• The Psychoanalytic Approach of Norman N. Holland
• 5. The Role of the functions of Literature
• The roles of literature in Literary Critisism
• Pleasure of utility
• Pleasure and utility
• Pleasure and Utility from Readers Perspective
• Interpretation and validation
• Interpretation
• Validation
• Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index.

Local Notes:

Acc.# 200433

Other Format:

Online version: McKnight, Edgar V. Bible and the reader.

ISBN:

• 0800618726
• 9780800618728

OCLC:

11917937