Reception Histories

Author : Steven Mailloux
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501728433

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In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities.

Author : Emma England,William John Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567660091

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Reception History and Biblical Studies by Emma England,William John Lyons Pdf

How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of examples of reception history practitioners at work and of their reflections this volume sets the agenda for biblical reception, as it begins to chart the near-infinite series of complex interpretive 'events' that have been generated by the journey of the biblical texts down through the centuries. The chapters consider aspects as diverse as political and economic factors, cultural location, the discipline of Biblical Studies, and the impact of scholarly preconceptions, upon reception history. Topics covered include biblical figures and concepts, contemporary music, paintings, children's Bibles, and interpreters as diverse as Calvin, Lenin, and Nick Cave.

Author : Michael Lieb,Emma Mason,Jonathan Roberts
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191649189

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The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible by Michael Lieb,Emma Mason,Jonathan Roberts Pdf

In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of biblical texts, reception history focuses on exploring the history of interpretation. In doing so it locates the dominant historical-critical scholarly paradigm within the history of interpretation, rather than over and above it. At the same time, the breadth of material and hermeneutical issues that reception history engages with questions any narrow understanding of the history of the Bible and its effects on faith communities. The challenge that reception history faces is to explore tradition without either reducing its meaning to what faith communities think is important, or merely offering anthologies of interesting historical interpretations. This major new handbook addresses these matters by presenting reception history as an enterprise (not a method) that questions and understands tradition afresh. The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible consciously allows for the interplay of the traditional and the new through a two-part structure. Part I comprises a set of essays surveying the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular key biblical passages or books with due regard for the specificity of their social, cultural or aesthetic context. These case studies span two millennia of interpretation by readers with widely differing perspectives. Some are at the level of a group response (from Gnostic readings of Genesis, to Post-Holocaust Jewish interpretations of Job); others examine individual approaches to texts (such as Augustine and Pelagius on Romans, or Gandhi on the Sermon on the Mount). Several chapters examine historical moments, such as the 1860 debate over Genesis and evolution, while others look to wider themes such as non-violence or millenarianism. Further chapters study in detail the works of popular figures who have used the Bible to provide inspiration for their creativity, from Dante and Handel, to Bob Dylan and Dan Brown.

Author : Katherine Low
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567520456

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The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife by Katherine Low Pdf

The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife investigates the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job's wife and its impact on the imaginations of readers throughout history. It begins by presenting key interpretive gaps in the biblical text concerning Job and his wife, explaining the way gender studies offers guiding principles with which the author engages a reception history of their marriage. After analyzing Job and his wife within medieval Christian theology of Eden, the author identifies ways in which Job's wife visually aligns with medieval images of Satan. The volume explores portrayals of Job and his wife in publications on marriage and gender roles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, moving onto an investigation of William Blake's sharp artistic divergence from the common tradition in his representation of Job's wife as a shrew. In the exploration of societal portrayals of Job and his Wife throughout history, this book discovers how arguments about marriage intertwine with not only gender roles, but also, with political, social, and historical movements.

Author : St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology,Ben Blackwell,Benjamin Blosser,Daniel Keating,Matthew Levering,John Kincaid,Ian Christopher Levy,Andrew Swafford,Matthew Ramage,Brant Pitre
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781945125089

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Letter & Spirit, Vol. 11: "Our Beloved Brother Paul" - Reception History of Paul in Catholic Tradition by St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology,Ben Blackwell,Benjamin Blosser,Daniel Keating,Matthew Levering,John Kincaid,Ian Christopher Levy,Andrew Swafford,Matthew Ramage,Brant Pitre Pdf

Author : Vera Ande
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783668355132

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A Reception History and Impact History of the Swastika Since the 19th Century by Vera Ande Pdf

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 8.5, Tilburg University (Liberal Arts and Sciences), course: The Impact of Colonialism on 19th-century European Culture, language: English, abstract: The colonialism of the 19th century has not only been the consequence and reason for the rapid industrialization, urbanization, socio-political and cultural changes, but also invoked a change in a way people would perceive the world around them. In other words, it is important to discuss how reception history entered people’s lives: its notion is important in itself not only as a concept, but “as a method to investigate the dynamics of what is being ‘read’ in selected products from another culture.” The paper will investigate the history of the swastika since its European discovery in the 19th century, how it was perceived then and now and what impact it had on the European society.

Author : Jessica Priestley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199653096

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Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture by Jessica Priestley Pdf

Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories from the early and middle Hellenistic period. Through discussions of contemporary discourse relating to the Persian Wars, geography, literary style, and biography, it nuances our understanding of how ancient readers reacted to and appropriated the Histories.

Author : Damiano Garofalo
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8869770141

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Political Audiences by Damiano Garofalo Pdf

This book deals with the popular reception of early Italian television, during the years of the so-called "lungo miracolo" (1954-1969). To do so, the author focuses on the Catholic and Communist audiences' perception of the first TV programs.

Author : James L. Machor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801899331

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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America by James L. Machor Pdf

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.

Author : Ika Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317355540

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Reception by Ika Willis Pdf

Reception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers, viewers, and audiences. Organized conceptually and thematically, this book provides a much-needed overview of the field, drawing on work in literary and cultural studies as well as Classics, Biblical studies, medievalism, and the media history of the book. It provides new ways of understanding and configuring the relationships between the various terminologies and theories that comprise reception study, and suggests potential ways forward for study and research in the light of such new configurations. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is the ideal introduction to the study of reception.

Author : Emma England,William John Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567660107

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Reception History and Biblical Studies by Emma England,William John Lyons Pdf

How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of examples of reception history practitioners at work and of their reflections this volume sets the agenda for biblical reception, as it begins to chart the near-infinite series of complex interpretive 'events' that have been generated by the journey of the biblical texts down through the centuries. The chapters consider aspects as diverse as political and economic factors, cultural location, the discipline of Biblical Studies, and the impact of scholarly preconceptions, upon reception history. Topics covered include biblical figures and concepts, contemporary music, paintings, children's Bibles, and interpreters as diverse as Calvin, Lenin, and Nick Cave.

Author : Evonne Levy,Tristan Weddigen
Publisher : Studies in the History of Art
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300250479

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The Global Reception of Heinrich Wölfflin's Principles of Art History by Evonne Levy,Tristan Weddigen Pdf

Perspectives on a book that changed ways of thinking and writing about art around the world

Author : James L. Machor,Philip Goldstein
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415926505

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Reception Study by James L. Machor,Philip Goldstein Pdf

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Peter Thacher Lanfer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780199926749

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Remembering Eden by Peter Thacher Lanfer Pdf

In this book, Peter Thacher Lanfer seeks to evaluate texts that expand and explicitly interpret the expulsion narrative of Adam and Eve in Genesis beyond the biblical canon.

Author : Steven Mailloux
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0801496020

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Rhetorical Power by Steven Mailloux Pdf

In this provocative and forcefully written book, Steven Mailloux takes issue with the validity of a number of distinctions commonly made in contemporary literary theory and cultural studies--distinctions between theory and history, reader and text, truth and ideology, aesthetics and politics. Mailloux first presents the case for a rhetorical hermeneutics and against foundationalist theories of interpretation. Doing hermeneutic theory, he argues, entails doing rhetorical history. By means of a detailed analysis of reader-response criticism, he highlights the connections between institutional politics and the interpretive rhetoric of academic literary criticism. Mailloux then uses Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an exemplary text. Relating Mark Twain's rhetoric to the cultural politics of post-Reconstruction debates about racist ideology, he places his reader-oriented interpretation within the rhetorical history of controversies over the meaning and value of Huckleberry Finn. Finally, in a far-ranging study of cultural reception, he juxtaposes the twentieth-century concern about the topic of race in Huckleberry Finn with the nineteenth-century audience's very different concerns about juvenile delinquency and the "bad-boy boom." In the final part of the book, Mailloux restates his critique of foundationalist hermeneutics through readings of Ken Kesey, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Richard Rorty, and he concludes by examining the role of rhetoric and theory in a congressional dispute over the Reagan administration's reinterpretation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Rhetorical Power will be welcomed by readers in literary theory and American studies, as well as in such fields as speech communication, the sociology of culture, and social and intellectual history, and by others interested in the politics of persuasion.