Narration and Discourse in the Book of Genesis |
Contents
Toward a functional theory of narrative | 3 |
The functions of the sign | 23 |
A functional definition of narrative | 41 |
The divine Voice and the narrative functions | 95 |
The microdialogue as the matrix of the Genesis narrative | 107 |
Who told you that you were naked? | 115 |
Where is your brother? | 146 |
The central microdialogue | 169 |
Where is the lamb for the burnt offering? | 187 |
Who then is he who was hunting game before | 204 |
Where do you come from? | 232 |
Notes | 276 |
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Abraham Abram action Adam ambiguous analysis Ann Banfield arises Bakhtin basis becomes blessing brothers Cain character characterized closure communication conflict consciousness context defamiliarization desire dialogue direct discourse divine Voice divine Word Doležel Dostoyevsky dream dynamics Esau evil existence father first-person force free indirect speech function fundamental future Gérard Genette Gunkel human Ibid identity illocutionary illocutionary force inner instance of speech interpretation intersubjective Isaac Issah Jacob Joseph Joseph story Julia Kristeva language linguistic literary material meaning mediation micro-dialogue narrative framework narrative personages narrative world narrator narrator's object occurs Ortigues person perspective Pharaoh plot posed position possible Potiphar present problem prohibition promise protagonist question reader Rebekah referential reflection representative narrative response Roland Barthes role s/he sacrifice semantic semiotic sign functions signifying speaks speech act spiritual story structure symbolic narrative tension third-person third-person narration transgression unity utterance verbal verse Westermann writing Yahweh Elohim