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Author:   Eric J. Douglass, M. Div
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   169
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9789004387270

ISBN 10:   9004387277
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   11 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Reading under Ethics  1 Writing as an Intentional Act  2 Reading as an Intentional Act  3 The Author’s Voice and the Reader’s Ethics  4 Assumptions, Implications, and Method 2 Communication: Ordinary and Literary  1 Ordinary Communication  2 Narrative Communication: Authors  3 Literary Communication: Readers  4 Literary Communication: Authors and Readers  5 Disjunctions: When Communication Fails  6 Summary 3 Locating the Text  1 An Overview  2 A Two-Self Reading System  3 Locating the Text  4 Identifying the Intended Audience  5 Characterizing Otherness  6 Summary 4 Entering the Storyworld  1 What is Narrative?  2 An Introduction to Identification  3 Identification and Character Construction  4 Identification and Attachment  5 Identification and Investment  6 Identification and Commitment  7 Summary 5 Many Characters, Many Perspectives  1 Strategies for Identification  2 Engaging Other Characters  3 Interest Bias and Evaluative Standard  4 Summary 6 Experiencing the Event  1 Mental Simulations and Serious Meaning  2 The Reading-Self and Modal Realism  3 The Actual-Self and Moderate Realism  4 The Experience of Event: Letters to Words  5 The Experience of Event: Words to Sentences  6 The Experience of Event: Beyond Sentences  7 Summary 7 Translating Story-Meaning  1 Communicating Meaning  2 Translating Meaning: Loyalty  3 Translating Meaning: Equivalence and Similarity  4 Translating Meaning: Relevance  5 Evaluating Validity: the Effects of Moderate Realism  6 Summary 8 Markan Examples  1 The Call of Levi (Mk. 2:14)  2 Storm at Sea (Mk. 4:35–41)  3 The Woman with a Hemorrhage (Mk. 5:25–34)  4 The Parable of the Sower (Mk. 4:3–20)  5 The Darkening of the Sun and Moon (Mk. 13:24–26) Bibliography Index

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Eric Douglass, M.Div., ThM., M.D., is adjunct faculty at Randolph-Macon College, where he teaches in the religion department. He has presented numerous academic papers in literary theory, and is author of Reading the Bible Ethically (Brill, 2014).

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