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Semeia 31: Reader Response Approaches to Biblical and Secular Texts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

the interpretive community will be re-made after their images. All of this is to say that the implied reader is the locus of a great deal of equivocation in current criticism, but only because reading itself is a mysterious merger of text, reader, and context. Yet for all its ambiguity, the term implied reader is still useful. When I use it, I shall use it to refer primarily to the reader implied in the text, but I shall take care to observe that different critical readers will grasp that reader
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