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Narrative Obtrusion in the Hebrew Bible /
Narrative critics of the Hebrew Bible often describe the biblical narrators as "laconic," "terse," or "economical.":. The narrators generally remain in the background, allowing the story to proceed while relying on characters and dialogue to provide necessary informatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014
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| Colección: | Emerging scholars.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Narrative critics of the Hebrew Bible often describe the biblical narrators as "laconic," "terse," or "economical.":. The narrators generally remain in the background, allowing the story to proceed while relying on characters and dialogue to provide necessary information to readers. On those occasions when these narrators add notes to their stories, scholars may characterize such interruptions as "asides" or redactions. Christopher T. Paris calls attention to just these narrative interruptions, in which the story teller "breaks frame" to provide information about a character or even in order to direct reader understanding and, Paris argues, to prevent undesirable construals or interpretations of the story. Paris focuses on the Deuteronomistic History. Here the narrator occasionally obtrudes into the narrative to manage or deflect anticipated reader questions and assumptions in an interpretive stance that Paris compares with the commentary provided by later rabbis and in the Targums. Attention to narrative obtrusion offers an entry point into the world of the narrator, Paris argues, and thus promises to redefine aspects of narrative criticism. |
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| Notas: | Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Vanderbilt University, 2012. Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (176 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781451487459 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |