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- catalog abstract "In this original interpretation of the story of Esther, Kenneth Craig offers to interpreters a new context for reading this often undervalued and misunderstood story. According to Craig, this story has been undervalued and misunderstood because its true genre, the literary carnivalesque, has not been considered. The defining image of the literary carnivalesque is the festival itself, whose atmosphere sets the tone, shapes the plot, and defines the images of the story. An integral aspect of this genre is the pairing of opposites and reversals, culminating in a literature that has its own peculiar kind of logic, a world of shifts, and "inside outs," and "turnabouts." Craig defines the book of Esther as the story of such reversals: Haman ends up on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai; and Esther emerges as the hero in this male-dominated narrative world. This book will shine a new light on the book of Esther as it offers to readers a new appreciation of the story's genre as a basis of interpretation.".
- catalog contributor b7587591.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "In this original interpretation of the story of Esther, Kenneth Craig offers to interpreters a new context for reading this often undervalued and misunderstood story. According to Craig, this story has been undervalued and misunderstood because its true genre, the literary carnivalesque, has not been considered. The defining image of the literary carnivalesque is the festival itself, whose atmosphere sets the tone, shapes the plot, and defines the images of the story. An integral aspect of this genre is the pairing of opposites and reversals, culminating in a literature that has its own peculiar kind of logic, a world of shifts, and "inside outs," and "turnabouts." Craig defines the book of Esther as the story of such reversals: Haman ends up on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai; and Esther emerges as the hero in this male-dominated narrative world. This book will shine a new light on the book of Esther as it offers to readers a new appreciation of the story's genre as a basis of interpretation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-186) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- The literary carnivalesque -- Esther and the carnivalesque -- Prelude -- Peripety -- Parody -- Purim.".
- catalog extent "192 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0664255183 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Literary currents in biblical interpretation".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press,".
- catalog subject "222/.9066 20".
- catalog subject "BS1375.2 .C73 1995".
- catalog subject "Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.".
- catalog subject "Bible as literature.".
- catalog subject "Bible. Esther Criticism, interpretation, etc.".
- catalog subject "Carnival in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The literary carnivalesque -- Esther and the carnivalesque -- Prelude -- Peripety -- Parody -- Purim.".
- catalog title "Reading Esther : a case for the literary carnivalesque / Kenneth M. Craig, Jr.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".