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By James E. Brenneman
During this new examine, James Brenneman confronts the difficulty of conflicting canons with complete strength, incorporating insights won from either literary and biblical disciplines at the query of canon. He starts off with an illuminating journey via modern literary idea from Hans Robert Jauss to Stanley Fish, and present discussions in theology concerning the canon. He is going directly to a attention of real and fake prophesy, with a close exam of the 3 it sounds as if conflicting models of the previous testomony "swords into plowshares" prophesy, as present in Isaiah 2:2-4,5; Joel 4:9-12 (Eng. 3:9-12); and Micah 4:1-5. Suggesting that the dynamics controlling the method for negotiating among contradictory readings of prophetic texts are similar to these at paintings in adjudicating among canons in clash, Brenneman concludes through pointing the best way in the direction of an integrative method acceptable to the query of canon and authority in a "post-modern" pluralistic context.
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On the one hand, Iser seeks to avoid identifying meaning with a formal, objective self-sufficient text (à la the New Critics), while on the other hand, he endeavors to restrain idiosyncratic reading-experiences of individual readers. The role of the text is to "designate instructions for the production of the signified" (65). The role of the reader is to follow these instructions. In the process of this "dyadic interaction," understanding is produced (66—68). Actually, what is produced by this interaction is an event, a happening.
If the multivalent character of reality, language, and knowledge is not yet obvious to the reader, there is another level pressing for description, namely, intertextuality as process. Intertextuality and Process The fourth level of intertextuality highlights the function or interplay of an older text or tradition cited, alluded to, or echoed within its new textual setting. Insofar as our focus is on the history of interactions between texts, that is, the history of how language is used (functions) in time-bound contexts, then Wittgenstein, Schleiermacher, Heidegger, and Gadamer form a "linguistic horizon" (which includes ontology and epistemology) upon which intertextuality as process looms.
23 18 Contradiction, Community, and Canon Intertextuality and Reality At the broadest level, intertextuality describes in textual language the radical ambiguity of reality in all its contradictions. Perhaps no other literary critic has so graphically connected his literary discoveries to life as we experience it than René Girard. Girard has risen to the rank offirstthinker in literary and anthropological disciplines alike. His initialfieldof inquiry, literature, led him to propose a whole explanatory system of reality.