How Readers Construct New Testament Characters: The Calling of Peter in the Gospels in Cognitive-Narratological Perspective
The discipline of cognitive narratology applies insights of cognitive linguistics to narrative analysis. This study seeks to demonstrate the value of cognitive narratology by exploring the role of the reader and the extent of the reader’s knowledge in constructing characters. While traditional narra...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Cognitive Linguistics and New Testament Narrative: Investigating Methodology through Characterization, by Jan Rüggemeier and Elizabeth E. Shively |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 430-451 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Character
/ Construction (Linguistics)
/ Reader
/ Cognitive linguistics
/ Narrative theory
/ Peter Apostle
/ Vocation
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
cognitive narratology
B character construction B Gospels B READER B Peter B Narrative analysis |
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| Summary: | The discipline of cognitive narratology applies insights of cognitive linguistics to narrative analysis. This study seeks to demonstrate the value of cognitive narratology by exploring the role of the reader and the extent of the reader’s knowledge in constructing characters. While traditional narrative criticism often limits itself to the world of the text, cognitive narratology recognizes that the reader’s knowledge from other texts and the real world also contributes to the construction of characters. This study will show that the extent of the reader’s literary and social knowledge of a text affects the construction of characters. As a case study, we will examine the calling of Peter in the canonical Gospels and show how four readers with varying degrees of knowledge will arrive at different constructions of Peter’s character. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Reference: | Kommentar in "Ancient Characters and Contemporary Readers (2021)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-29040002 |