Title: The Bible and the reader : an introduction to literary criticism /
Authors: McKnight, Edgar V.
Publisher: Fortress Press,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Bible Hermeneutics.; Bible as literature.
Contents: 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