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Author McKnight, Edgar V.

Title The Bible and the reader : an introduction to literary criticism / Edgar V. McKnight
Published Philadelphia : Fortress Press, [1985]
©1985

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Description xix, 147 pages ; 22 cm
Contents 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
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 -- Concretization -- 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 135-141
SUBJECT Bible -- Hermeneutics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013650
Subject Bible as literature.
LC no. 85004603
ISBN 0800618726 (paperback)