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dc.contributor.authorGaasland, Rolf
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-28T21:22:04Z
dc.date.available2019-02-28T21:22:04Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis article addresses the question whether unreliable narration, as the concept is understood in the tradition following Wayne Booth’s original definition, can occur in non-fictional stories. Contrary to Pekka Tammi’s conclusion in a recent article, this article’s answer is affirmative. It seeks to demonstrate, through a comparative analysis of respectively Mark’s and Matthew’s stories about the Canaanite woman (Mark 7:24–30 and Matthew 15:21–28), how Matthew comes forward as an unreliable narrator, and that his narrative unreliability is a function of what James Phelan has termed underreporting. The textual analysis, which leans on Gregory Currie’s and James Phelan’s theories of unreliable narration, argues that far from being more or less identical stories, as is suggested by various exegetes, Matthew’s pericope is significantly different from that of Mark. It is different both thematically and regarding the portrayal of the figure of Jesus, but also, and not least, by pursuing a more complex and daring communicative strategy based on unreliable narration and a system of multilayered irony. In concluding the theoretical discussion of unreliable narration, I suggest not only that unreliable narration is possible in non-fictional stories, but also that it is a somewhat misleading concept when applied to the kind of stories Wayne Booth normally referred to, namely fictional first-person narratives.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4466>https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4466</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGaasland, R. (2018). Evangelisk ironi. <i>Nordlit, 40</i>, 65-76. https://doi.org/10.7557/13.4466en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1655642
dc.identifier.issn0809-1668
dc.identifier.issn1503-2086
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/14797
dc.language.isonoben_US
dc.publisherSeptentrio Academic Publishingen_US
dc.relation.journalNordlit
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Theology and religious science: 150::Religious science, religious history: 153en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Teologi og religionsvitenskap: 150::Religionsvitenskap, religionshistorie: 153en_US
dc.subjectUpålitelig narrasjonen_US
dc.subjectBoothen_US
dc.subjectden kanaaneiske kvinnenen_US
dc.subjectMarkusen_US
dc.subjectMatteusen_US
dc.subjectironien_US
dc.subjectunreliable narrationen_US
dc.subjectCanaanite womanen_US
dc.subjectMarken_US
dc.subjectMatthewen_US
dc.subjectironyen_US
dc.titleEvangelisk ironien_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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