The reader in the gospel
In my previous work on the Gospel according to Mark (e g 1978a; 1978b; 1980a) I have tried to show how the text leads the reader to perform certain operations on it, operations that lead the reader to draw certain conclusions about its message. However, the reader I had in mind was what might be cal...
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| Language: | English |
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1984
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Neotestamentica
Year: 1984, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 38-51 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Epistemology B Reader in the Gospel B Mark B Text B Hermeneutics B Christianity B Readers |
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| Summary: | In my previous work on the Gospel according to Mark (e g 1978a; 1978b; 1980a) I have tried to show how the text leads the reader to perform certain operations on it, operations that lead the reader to draw certain conclusions about its message. However, the reader I had in mind was what might be called an undifferentiated reader, virtually any reader of the text, whereas the various forms of reader response criticism in literary studies have shown that this is entirely too simplistic a notion of the relationships between readers and texts. In retrospect, I think I was aware of this problem (l978b;1980b) and avoided most of the hazards of ignoring it. But because I did not confront the problem directly, I now wish to do so in order to see what a more discriminating understanding of readers and texts might disclose. In this essay I will address issues that are literary, hermeneutical and historical. They are literary because they pertain to the text that we read; they are hermeneutical because they pertain to what we do when we read a text; and they are historical because they pertain to the narrative worlds that readers construct from texts, and from which worlds any historical 'real' worlds are to be inferred, if they can be inferred at all. In the first part of the paper I will address in a theoretical way the relationships between readers, texts, and narrative worlds. In the second part I will explore these relationships in the Gospel according to Mark. And in a brief conclusion I will suggest some new lines of historical enquiry that are opened up by our exploration. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/AJA2548356_178 |