RT Article
T1 Paratexts Seeking Understanding: Manuscripts and Aesthetic Cognitivism
JF Religions
VO 11
IS 10
A1 Allen, Garrick V. 1988-
A1 Royle, Anthony P.
A2 Royle, Anthony P.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1736641948
AB This article explores the relationship between manuscripts of ancient religious literature and aesthetic cognitivism, a normative theory of the value of art. Arguing that manuscripts both contain and constitute works of art, we explore paratextuality as a phenomenon that connects manuscript studies to both qualitative and quantitative sides of aesthetic cognitivism. Focusing on our work with a single unpublished gospel manuscript (Dublin, CBL W 139) in the context of a larger project called Paratextual Understanding, we make that case that paratexts have aesthetic functions that allow them to contribute to the knowledge yielded by the larger literary work of which they are a part. We suggest a number of avenues for further research that engages with material culture, non-typography, paratexts, and the arts.
K1 Eusebian apparatus
K1 New Testament
K1 aesthetic cognitivism
K1 Gospels
K1 Knowledge
K1 Paratexts
K1 Understanding
DO 10.3390/rel11100523