Readers have been responding to what they have read and experienced since the dawn of literature. For example‚ we have Plate and Aristotle who were concerned about audience responses and how plays generated pity and fear on them. Still‚ the audience or readers were passive. After the appearance of reader response theory‚ readers are activated. They involve themselves to elaborate the text‚ fill in the gaps and enact their experiences with the text. Most reader response critics can be divided into
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Gerard Genette: Structuralism and Literary Criticism What is structuralism? How is it applied to the study of literature? Structuralism (Structuralist Criticism): It is the offshoot of certain developments in linguistics and anthropology. Saussure’s mode of the synchronic study of language was an attempt to formulate the grammar of a language from a study of parole. Using the Saussurian linguistic model‚ Claude Levi-Strauss examined the customs and conventions of some cultures with a view of
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meaning of the biblical text is a great concern as well as a great challenge continuously for exegeses for the purpose of preaching and teaching. As a result‚ the subject of hermeneutics is introduced and is so significant that it has become one of the major courses taught in the seminaries. Basically‚ the study of hermeneutics is to learn about the precepts and methods ‘for acquiring an understanding of the Scriptures’
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Philosophy is a study that includes various diverse subfields such as aesthetics‚ epistemology‚ ethics‚ logic‚ and metaphysics. Various philosophical traditions use different methods and include different topics in their study. Some‚ for example‚ include politics‚ physics‚ or religion. The fundamental method of philosophy involves the systematic use of critical reasoning to evaluate arguments in defence of assertions of belief or opinion. The term philosophy comes from the Greek word "Φιλοσοφία"
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puts up a challenge to every single reader to come up with a code of ethics that will identify with the example of Christ of standing against the oppressed. In the other three parts of the book the author gives case studies and show how his own hermeneutic circle applied to different ethical situations such as relationships‚ business‚ and global relationships. in each section there are four
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Westermann agrees that Gen 1:1-2:4 “is a narrative.”26 Collins calls it “exalted prose narrative‚” acknowledging that it is not poetry‚ and that “we are dealing with prose narrative‚” yet trying still to maintain the possibility of a non-literal hermeneutic.27 Though acknowledging that Gen 1 is narrative‚ Waltke then concludes that the genre is “a literary-artistic representation of the creation”–which‚ in fact‚ is not a genre type at all.28 The best that Stek can do is to call it sui generis (its
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practitioner as cultural intermediary. Author: Cornelis A. Coetzee Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Literature review 3 3. Theoretical approach 3 3.1 Theoretical perspective 3 3.2 Research approach 4 3.2.1 Interpretive approach 5 3.2.1.1 Hermeneutics as a metatheory 6 4. Postmodernism‚ globalization and culture in communication: a brief discussion 6 4.1 Postmodern communication 6 4.2 Globalization and communication 7 4.3 Multi-cultural communication 8 4.3.1 Culture and cultural identities
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STUDY GUIDE: MODULE 1 As you read this week’s textbook reading assignments‚ take notes in response to these questions and statements. This study guide will help you to prepare for your quiz. Fee and Stuart. 1. Know: Hermeneutics is the art and science‚ or as some would say the theory and practice‚ of interpretation. It is the art and science (theory and practice) of interpretation 2. What do they say is the aim of a good interpretation? What is not the aim? The aim of good interpretation
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Chapter 1 How do we know? * Somatically – things we know through direct sensory perception of our environment * Look‚ smell‚ feel‚ sound or taste * Symbolically – things we know through someone or something * Parent‚ friend‚ teacher‚ museum‚ textbook‚ photograph‚ radio‚ film‚ television or internet * This type of information comes to use from an indirect channel or medium Who are the Mass Media? * Mass media – communication technologies that have the potential to
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Pollard 1995‚ 1-13. Liu‚ Miqing. 1995b. ‘Translation Theory from/into Chinese’. Chan & Pollard 1995‚ 1029-47. Ma Zuyi. 1994. ‘History of Translation in China’. Chan & Pollard 1995‚ 373-87. Mailloux‚ Steven. 2001. ‘Interpretation and Rhetorical Hermeneutics’ [1998]. Reception Study. From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies‚ ed. J.L. Machor & P. Goldstein‚ New York & London: Routledge‚ 39-60. Needham‚ Rodney. 1972. Belief‚ Language and Experience. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Richards‚ I.A. 1932. Mencius
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