The King through Ironic Eyes: Biblical Narrative and the Literary Reading Process

Abstract

To understand a literary work, we have, in the course of reading, to answer a series of such questions as: What is the represented situation? What is happening, and why? What is the connection between what is taking place at this particular moment and what went before, and how do both relate to what will probably come after? What are the motives and designs of this or that character, and to what extent is he aware of them? How does he view other characters figuring in the same work? It is the set of answers that is given that enables the reader to reconstruct the field of reality is representedin the text to make sense of the fictive world.

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