Reading with an "I" to the Heavens

Harkins, Angela Kim

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“…Our study of the Shepherd of Hermas will rely on integrative studies of how mental imagery takes place at the cognitive level from practices of reading and or hearingwhat cognitive literary theorists refer to as "enactive reading" (Kuzmičová 2014;Speer et al 2009). Immersive experiences of reading are also greatly assisted by the first-person voice or language about the body (Kuzmičová 2012, 25;Gillmayr-Bucher 2004), which can allow the text to be experienced as an affective script as a reader takes on the point of view of the protagonist (Harkins 2012). Arresting narrative scenes such as the opening image of Hermas helping a beautiful woman emerge from the Tiber are recognizable ones that function as an experiential frame that allows for the reconstruction of memories of similar affect, either from the reader's own personal experience or recalled from other texts (Barsalou 2005;Boyer 2009;Lee 2009;Schacter 2007).…”

Section: Experiencing the World Of The Shepherd Of Hermas Through Hermasmentioning

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“…The role that the physical environment plays during reading is thought to contribute to a stronger emotional response within the listener (Kuzmičová 2016). The naturally associative aspects of emotion can also allow a hearer to actualize a text by allowing him/her the opportunity to reinvigorate memories of similar emotional experiences (Harkins 2012). It is this complicated embodied process by which we might imagine how actualization allows for the affective re-experiencing of foundational narratives with first hand intensity and the generative process of updating that narrative in light of changing circumstances.…”

Section: Enactive Reading: An Arresting Narrative Framementioning

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“…What kind of sensory perceptions influenced how a text was experienced when it was read or heard? How did the physical apparatus of a scroll or a codex influence how a text might be experienced (Harkins 2012)? More and more scholars have sought to expand how we understand the embodied experience of texts by introducing integrative bio-cultural approaches associated with the broad study of religion both past and present (Geertz 2010).…”

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Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the experience of lived religion

Harkins¹

2020

Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

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This essay examines the first four visions in the Book of Visions found in the early Christian work known as the Shepherd of Hermas wherein Hermas reports having had a visionary experience happen to him. These are highly mediated and thoroughly edited literary reports that draw upon the emotional contours of foundational narratives and myths. Despite their highly constructed elements, literary features of the visionary reports can nevertheless give some insight into how flesh and blood readers may have experienced the reading or hearing of these texts. With the help of the integrative approaches associated with the cognitive literary theory, this essay considers how the process of imagining the scenes in the Book of Visions participates in the formation of the self.

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Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the experience of lived religion

Harkins¹

2020

Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

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“…1.13; 9.34; 24.5, 37; Acts 7.32; 10.4. On how the affective experience is a bodily experience in religious encounters, see Harkins 2012: 37-46.…”

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Seeing Divine Speech: Sensory Intersections in Luke’s Birth Narrative and Beyond

Wilson

2020

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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This article explores how divine discourse in Luke–Acts intersects with the sense of sight. Divine discourse is never simply heard, for speech crosses sensory lines and blurs any clear demarcation between the verbal and the visual. In exploring these sensory intersections, I begin with Luke’s arguably most logocentric section – the birth narrative – and discuss the divine–human encounters that occur there. After this analysis of the epiphanies in Lk. 1–2, I then trace how the patterns concerning sight and its overlaps with divine speech are amplified later in Luke–Acts. Beyond the birth narrative, Luke increases the importance of the visual in divine–human encounters, mainly with respect to (1) the role of sight in epiphanies, (2) the function of signs in facilitating faith and (3) the motif of revelation and hiddenness. Indeed, we shall see that, for Luke, there is something important to ‘seeing’ divine speech.

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“… 6. My article fits into the recent trend of using cognitive studies to analyse literature. See Herman (2012) and Kukkonen and Caracciolo (2014) concerning modern literature; Butler and Purves (2013) concerning ancient Greek and Latin literature; Grethlein and Huitink (forthcoming) for an enactive study of Homer's Iliad ; Harkins (2012a) and (2012b) for studies of Jewish and early Christian texts through the lenses of embodiment. …”

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AN EMBODIED READING OF EPIPHANIES IN AELIUS ARISTIDES’SACRED TALES

Tagliabue¹

2016

Ramus

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This article focuses on theSacred Tales(henceforthST), Aelius Aristides’ first-person account of his terrible diseases and subsequent healing brought about by Asclepius, and sheds new light on this text with the help of the notion of embodiment. In recent decades theSThas received a great deal of attention: scholars have offered two main readings of this work, oscillating between the poles of religion and rhetoric. Some have read theSTas an aretalogy while others have emphasised the rhetorical aims of this text and its connection with Second Sophistic literature.

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Reading with an "I" to the Heavens

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Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the experience of lived religion

Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the experience of lived religion

Seeing Divine Speech: Sensory Intersections in Luke’s Birth Narrative and Beyond

AN EMBODIED READING OF EPIPHANIES IN AELIUS ARISTIDES’SACRED TALES

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