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NEW BOOK on “Perspective Criticism”
Now available from Cascade Books, Perspective Criticism: Point of View and Evaluative Guidance in Biblical Narrative, a full-length treatment of this methodology of point-of-view analysis. This book is...
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SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism”...
Perspective Criticism is a wonderfully enjoyable book, which shows us how the manipulation of the point of view of the reader facilitates identification or dissociation from characters, and thus...
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S.B.L. Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism” (part 2): Response to...
Francis Landy’s contribution (May 8/2013 post) brings to this discussion of point-of-view crafting a wealth of expertise in the study of Hebrew narrative, an expertise resulting in some helpful...
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S.B.L. Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism” (part 3) – STEVE BLACK
Gary Yamasaki’s Perspective Criticism uses “point-of-view analysis” as a means to clarify puzzling passages in the Bible. Through point of view, the reader experiences characters as remote or close. If...
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S.B.L. Book Review Session of “Perspective Criticism” (part 4): Response to...
Steve Black’s review of Perspective Criticism (May 21/2013 post) reflects a keen grasp of the fact that the essence of point of view relates to the perspective through which readers are led to...
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S.B.L. Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism” (part 5) – MATTHEW...
It is appropriate to respond to Gary’s work with a quote from the crafter-of-point-of view-in-chief, Marcel Proust: “Only by art can we emerge from ourselves, can we know what another sees of this...
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S.B.L. Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism” (part 6): Response to...
Matt’s review of Perspective Criticism provides a relatively rare perspective, that of a biblical scholar who is also a literary critic trained in the study of the modern novel. Such a perspective is...
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S.B.L. Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism” (part 7): Response to...
I am beginning to think that I am not sure that I find Yamasaki’s concept of “point of view character” as reflected in his response (May 29/2013 post) to be useful. I prefer simply to think of “point...
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S.B.L. Book Review Session on “Perspective Criticism” (part 8): Response to...
I really profited from Gary’s response to my response (May 14/2013 post). It showed me where we differ, and where I have misunderstood him. I think he is right, or at least partially right, in his...
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