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The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
Get PDFContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
The FCC under Mark Fowler: A Mixed Bag
Get PDFThe FCC\u27s performance under Chairman Mark Fowler (1981-87) calls for a mixed verdict, in the author\u27s estimate. Fowler\u27s reliance on competition, the marketplace, and deregulation, fit the common carrier area, but ill served the present public interest standard of the Communications Act in the broadcast field. This article assesses FCC activities in this period in the above two fields, and also in the cable television and spectrum areas
The FCC under Mark Fowler: A Mixed Bag
No full textThe FCC\u27s performance under Chairman Mark Fowler (1981-87) calls for a mixed verdict, in the author\u27s estimate. Fowler\u27s reliance on competition, the marketplace, and deregulation, fit the common carrier area, but ill served the present public interest standard of the Communications Act in the broadcast field. This article assesses FCC activities in this period in the above two fields, and also in the cable television and spectrum areas
The FCC under Mark Fowler: A Mixed Bag
No full textThe FCC\u27s performance under Chairman Mark Fowler (1981-87) calls for a mixed verdict, in the author\u27s estimate. Fowler\u27s reliance on competition, the marketplace, and deregulation, fit the common carrier area, but ill served the present public interest standard of the Communications Act in the broadcast field. This article assesses FCC activities in this period in the above two fields, and also in the cable television and spectrum areas
Making Sense of it All: Learning, Virtue, Piety
No full textThis recording is part of the Marsh Chapel Audio Collection.A sermon on the transfiguration of Christ from Rev. Dr. Mark Fowler. Scripture is from 2 Kings, 2 Corinthians and the Gospel of Mark. Dr. Fowler is a graduate of Boston University School of Theology. IN 2006, Dr. Fowler was Vice President for Vocation in Ministry and Associate Professor of Church Leadership at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. The original recording has lots of hiss and crackle, diminished here as much as possible
Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art
No full textThe book is the catalogue of the exhibition Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art, which the author curated from the collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Arts Council, London, Southampton City Art Gallery and private collections. The author provided three essays, 'The Geometry of Modern British Art', 'West Country Constructivism', and 'Abstract Art and the Decline of Modernism' to advance critical histories of three distinct moments of importance in the development of British abstract art. A fourth, edited by him, was by a research student under his supervision (Alan Fowler) and covered Systems Art and Constructionism
The Federal Communications Commission 1981-1987: What the Chairman Said
No full textSpeeches of Mark Fowler-Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1981-1987-are edited and arranged according to subject matter. The speeches represent Fowler\u27s vision for the FCC during his tenure. They may serve as a useful research tool for scholars and practitioners in the communications field
The Federal Communications Commission 1981-1987: What the Chairman Said
Get PDFSpeeches of Mark Fowler-Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1981-1987-are edited and arranged according to subject matter. The speeches represent Fowler\u27s vision for the FCC during his tenure. They may serve as a useful research tool for scholars and practitioners in the communications field
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