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Reading Revelation as pastiche : imitating the past / Michelle Fletcher.

By: Fletcher, Michelle [author.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of New Testament studies: 571.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies: Publisher: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567672704; 0567672700Subject(s): Bible. Revelation -- Criticism, Textual | Bible. Old Testament -- Relation to Revelation | Bible. Revelation -- Relation to the Old Testament | Intertextuality in the Bible | ImitationLOC classification: BS2825.52 | .F54 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Part 1: Contextualizing the study. Chapter 1. Reviewing the past: previous studies and approaches. Gregory Beale (1984) ; Jon Pulien (1988) ; Jean-Peirre Ruiz (1989) ; Jan Fekkes (1994) ; Steve Moyise (1995) ; Alison Jack (1999) ; David Mathewson (2003) ; Beate Kowalski (2004) ; Marko Jauhiainen (2005) ; Agreements and ways forward -- Chapter 2. Revisualizing the past: ancient imitation and combination. Statues ; Literary imitation and combination ; Herod's Temple ; Second Temple pseudepigrapha ; summary -- Chapter 3. Pastiche: imitation and combination. What is pastiche? ; Reading Revelation as pastiche: methodology and preview -- Part 2: Case studies. Chapter 4. Listening to all the voices: reading plurality in Revelation. The inaugural vision of One Like a Son of Man (Rev. 1.12-18) ; Test cases: reading combined voices ; Listening to all the voices in Rev. 1.12-18 -- Chapter 5. Once upon a time in Babylon: reading Revelation 17 affectively. Reading the Whore of Babylon ; Test case: Once upon a time in the West ; Rereading the Whore -- Chapter 6. Revelation 18: far from the past? Revelation 18: artifice ; Similarity studies ; Test case: Far from Heaven ; Revelation 18: like but not the same -- Chapter 7. Apocalypse noir: rereading genre through pastiche. Apocalypse awareness ; Test case: film noir and neo-noir ; Neo-apacalypse-noir -- Chapter 8. Conclusions. Overview of findings and contributions ; The results and ramifications of Reading Revelation as pastiche.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1: Contextualizing the study. Chapter 1. Reviewing the past: previous studies and approaches. Gregory Beale (1984) ; Jon Pulien (1988) ; Jean-Peirre Ruiz (1989) ; Jan Fekkes (1994) ; Steve Moyise (1995) ; Alison Jack (1999) ; David Mathewson (2003) ; Beate Kowalski (2004) ; Marko Jauhiainen (2005) ; Agreements and ways forward -- Chapter 2. Revisualizing the past: ancient imitation and combination. Statues ; Literary imitation and combination ; Herod's Temple ; Second Temple pseudepigrapha ; summary -- Chapter 3. Pastiche: imitation and combination. What is pastiche? ; Reading Revelation as pastiche: methodology and preview -- Part 2: Case studies. Chapter 4. Listening to all the voices: reading plurality in Revelation. The inaugural vision of One Like a Son of Man (Rev. 1.12-18) ; Test cases: reading combined voices ; Listening to all the voices in Rev. 1.12-18 -- Chapter 5. Once upon a time in Babylon: reading Revelation 17 affectively. Reading the Whore of Babylon ; Test case: Once upon a time in the West ; Rereading the Whore -- Chapter 6. Revelation 18: far from the past? Revelation 18: artifice ; Similarity studies ; Test case: Far from Heaven ; Revelation 18: like but not the same -- Chapter 7. Apocalypse noir: rereading genre through pastiche. Apocalypse awareness ; Test case: film noir and neo-noir ; Neo-apacalypse-noir -- Chapter 8. Conclusions. Overview of findings and contributions ; The results and ramifications of Reading Revelation as pastiche.

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