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4 - Literary Criticism

from Part I - Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2022

By
Francisco Lozada
Edited by
Ian Boxall  and
Bradley C. Gregory
Ian Boxall
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Bradley C. Gregory
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

The essay discusses the development of literary criticism and its various approaches, such as narrative criticism, reader-response criticism, and ideological criticism. Concepts such the implied author, text, and implied reader are also introduced, providing greater clarity of the principles employed by literary critics engaged in the narrative exegesis of the text.

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Plotcharactersettingsand flesh-and-blood reader
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The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation , pp. 73 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York: Basic Books, 1981.Google Scholar
Anderson, Janice Capel. “Narratology, the Three Worlds of the Text and a Door to Engagement.” Pages 138–59 in Reading Ideologies: Essays on the Bible and Interpretation in Honor of Mary Ann Tolbert. Edited by Liew, Tat-siong Benny. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Bal, Mieke. Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories. ISBL. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.Google Scholar
Beardslee, William A. Literary Criticism of the New Testament. GBS, NT Series. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1969.Google Scholar
Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Fowler, Robert. Let the Reader Understand: Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1991.Google Scholar
Lozada, Francisco Jr. John: An Introduction and Study Guide: History, Community, and Ideology. T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the New Testament. London: Bloomsbury 2020.Google Scholar
Lozada, Francisco Jr. A Literary Reading of John 5: Text as Construction. StBibLit 20. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.Google Scholar
Malbon, E. Struthers. In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark’s Gospel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Powell, Mark Allan. What Is Narrative Criticism? GBS, NT Series. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Segovia, Fernando F. “‘And They Began to Speak in Their Own Tongues’: Competing Modes of Discourse in Contemporary Biblical Interpretation.” Pages 1–32 in Reading from This Place. Volume 1: Social Location and Biblical Interpretation in the United States. Edited by Segovia, Fernando F. and Tolbert, Mary Ann; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Segovia, Fernando F., ed. “What Is John?” Volume 1: Readers and Readings of the Fourth Gospel. SBL SymS 3. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Sternberg, Meir. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Reading and the Drama of Reading. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Tolbert, Mary Ann. Sowing the Gospel: Mark’s World in Literary-Historical Perspective. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.Google Scholar

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  • Literary Criticism
  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.006
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  • Literary Criticism
  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.006
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  • Literary Criticism
  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.006
Available formats
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