Mark's sowing: The effacement and encrypting of Jesus
| dc.contributor.advisor | Snow, Edward A. | en_US |
| dc.creator | Larocco, Steven M. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-06-03T23:55:23Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2009-06-03T23:55:23Z | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1988 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In traditional hermeneutics and textual criticism, narratives are read in accordance with the trope synecdoche: parts of the narrative are related to the whole and the whole to parts. However, in my analysis, narratives produce textual effects which correspond to the trope metonymy: parts are related to parts with no natural thrust towards synthesis. When one reads the gospel of Mark metonymically, it ceases to function as a story articulating a coherent suffering Messiah Christology. Instead, two contradictory textual "logics" emerge: first, certain textual constellations and discourses suggest the need for the "effacement" of Jesus, the need to reduce his "presence" in order to allow the "introjection" of his message; second, other constellations and discourses suggest the need to retain his narratival "presence," to "encrypt" him in the textuality of the gospel, to "incorporate" his "presence" in a way which resists epistemic assimilation or identification. My analysis examines these differing "logics." | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 135 p. | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
| dc.identifier.callno | Thesis Engl. 1988 Larocco | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Larocco, Steven M.. "Mark's sowing: The effacement and encrypting of Jesus." (1988) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13301">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13301</a>. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13301 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Religion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Biblical studies | en_US |
| dc.title | Mark's sowing: The effacement and encrypting of Jesus | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type.material | Text | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | English | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Humanities | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Rice University | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts | en_US |
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