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  #1 Schawn Kellogg on 17 Feb 10

   

  Narrative Criticism is a modern critical approach to Biblical reading. It treats the text as a whole, rather than in parts such as is common in the more historical critical approaches of the 18th century and beyond. European and American literary scholars began to work seriously with this approach in the 1960's and 70's…and it found its way into Biblical criticism through the work of Alter and others in the 1980's.
  Narrative Criticism considers the effects of a literary work that tells a story. It focuses on the narrative itself, including such elements of the story as: events, characters, setting, plot (the interaction of the characters), implied author and implied reader. An important distinction here is that the elements of the story are the "what" of a narrative; this is in contrast to the "how" of a narrative or how the story is told. In other words, narrative criticism focuses on the story itself and not on the rhetorical elements. It is a method of reading the text that wonders about the details or elements of the text; such as wondering what order the characters and events appear what information they give to the reader, and so on. Narrative critical readings attend to the "being" of a story…its presence and transformative power. This quality transcends and reading that would confine it to a historical place in time.
  
  Scholars who exemplify this approach: Robert Alter, Mark Allan Powell, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Narrative Criticism is a modern critical approach to Biblical reading. It treats the text as a whole, rather than in parts such as is common in the more historical critical approaches of the 18th century and beyond. European and American literary scholars began to work seriously with this approach in the 1960's and 70's…and it found its way into Biblical criticism through the work of Alter and others in the 1980's. <br /> Narrative Criticism considers the effects of a literary work that tells a story. It focuses on the narrative itself, including such elements of the story as: events, characters, setting, plot (the interaction of the characters), implied author and implied reader. An important distinction here is that the elements of the story are the "what" of a narrative; this is in contrast to the "how" of a narrative or how the story is told. In other words, narrative criticism focuses on the story itself and not on the rhetorical elements. It is a method of reading the text that wonders about the details or elements of the text; such as wondering what order the characters and events appear what information they give to the reader, and so on. Narrative critical readings attend to the "being" of a story…its presence and transformative power. This quality transcends and reading that would confine it to a historical place in time. <br /> <br /> Scholars who exemplify this approach: Robert Alter, Mark Allan Powell, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon</div>

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