: Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen
: Prepare the Way of the Lord Towards a Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Audience Involvement with Characters and Events in the Markan World
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< >This study analyzes an oral performance of the entire Gospel of Mark, with emphasis on involvement with characters and events, the emotional effects of such involvement, and how these processes maintain or shape the identity of those who hear the Gospel. Insights from cognitive poetics and psychonarratology illuminate the cognitive processes that take place during the performance. Consequently, previous research on the Gospel of Mark, which was conducted on the basis of narrative criticism, orality criticism, and performance criticism, is expanded with cognitive aspects.



< >Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen, University of Oslo, Norway.
Acknowledgements15
Part I Introduction17
I.1. Prepare the Way of the Lord17
I.2. Oral Performance and the Gospel of Mark21
I.3. For Whom Was the Gospel ofMark Performed?25
I.4. The LiteraryCharacter ofMark32
I.5. The Markan World as a Conceptual World39
I.6. Involvement with the Markan World41
I.6.1. Involvement with Markan Characters through Identification43
I.6.2. Involvement with Markan Characters through Sound44
I.6.3. Involvement with the Narrative World through Visualization46
I.7. Short Comments on the Approach Chosen for This Study46
Part II Theories and Methods That Explain Involvement with the Markan World49
II.1. Introductory Remarks49
II.2. Conventional Theory about Characters50
II.3. Mental Representations of Narratives51
II.3.1. The Communicative Aspect52
II.3.2. The Discourse Aspect56
II.3.3. The Suggestion Aspect56
II.3.4. The Realization Aspect58
II.3.5. The Event/Story Aspect63
II.3.6. Short Summary63
II.4. Mimesis63
II.4.1. Mimesis as Performance: Mimesis of Performance, Mimesis through Performance64
II.4.2. Mimesis as Transportation66
II.4.3. Mimesis as Simulation69
II.5. Audience Members Cast as Invisible Witnesses, Addressees, and Side-Participants71
II.5.1. Focalization and the Invisible Witness72
II.5.2. Focalization – Psychology and Ideology76
II.5.3. Speech Acts – Addressee or Side-Participant78
II.5.4. Involvement with Characters: Empathy and Identification84
II.6. Narrative Impact88
II.6.1. Narrative Impact Part One: Emotions and Literature88
II.6.2. Narrative Impact Part Two: Beliefs, Behavior, and Identity98
II.7. The Parables as Hypodiegetic Narratives106
II.7.1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending Theory107
II.7.2. Blending Theory108
II.7.3. Local Context and Grounding Box111
II.7.4. Interpretation of the Blend and Its Cultural Foundation in the Suggestion Structure111
II.7.5. Blending Theory and Linear Presentation of lnformation during an Oral Performance Event113
II.8. Summary113
Part III The Structure of the Gospel of Mark115
III.1. A Linguistic Approach115
III.1.1. An Overview ofNarrative Markers117
III.2. An Outline of the Gospel of Mark119
Part IV Analysis of Involvement with Characters and Events in the Markan World127
1:1: Title127
1:2–13: In the Wilderness129
1:2–3: Isaiah’s Prophecy129
1:4–11: John the Baptist and Jesus at the River Jordan135
1:4–8: The Ministry of John the Baptist135
1:9–11: Jesus Is Baptized by John138
1:12–13: Jesus and Otherworldly Beings in the Wilderness140
1:14–8:26: Jesus in Galilee and the Surrounding Areas141
1:14–15: Jesus Arrives in Galilee142
1:16–20: Jesus Calls Simon, Andrew, James, and John by the Sea of Galilee145
1:21–34: Jesus, Simon, Andrew, James, and John in Capernaum147
1:21–28: Jesus in the Synagogue148
1:29–34: Jesus, Simon, Andrew, James, and John at the House of Simon and Andrew153
1:35–38: Jesus, Simon, and His Companions at a Desolated Place156
1:39–45a: Jesus Enters Synagogues Throughout All of Galilee157
1:39: Jesus Casts Out Evil Spirits157
1:40–45a: Jesus Is Approached by a Leper158
1:45b: Jesus Stays in Desolated Pla