Bringing the Word to Life by Ward Richard;Trobisch David;

Bringing the Word to Life by Ward Richard;Trobisch David;

Author:Ward, Richard;Trobisch, David;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Published: 2013-07-01T00:00:00+00:00


Performance Criticism and Form Criticism

The reading experience in antiquity differs considerably from a modern reading experience. Whereas reading is mostly a silent, solitary activity today, the manuscripts of antiquity were designed by authors, editors, and publishers to record sound; published literature was intended to serve as a script to be interpreted to an audience by a performer.3 Form-critical approaches stress the importance of understanding the situation of communication in which a text functions, and performance criticism can provide the necessary contextual information.



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