RT Article
T1 Space for Moral Agency in the Book of Ruth
JF Journal for the study of the Old Testament
VO 40
IS 1
SP 79
OP 96
A1 Fewell, Danna Nolan 1958-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1777016290
AB As moral agents, the characters in the book of Ruth operate under pronounced circumstantial constraints. Examining how characters' speeches project a ‘self’ that ‘answers the glance of the other’ (Monika Fludernik), and utilizing Michel de Certeau's notion of narrative's spatial syntax, this article examines how geographical, social, and bodily spaces encourage and discourage certain self-identifications and actions and how the crossing of, and tactical behaviors within, these spatial boundaries inform our perceptions of moral agency. Bakhtin's concept of ‘event-ness’ also contributes to our understanding of how the book's plotting of human behavior invites further moral reflection.
K1 event-ness of Being
K1 Bakhtin
K1 De Certeau
K1 spatial syntax
K1 Space
K1 Moral Agency
K1 Self
K1 character construction
K1 Ruth
DO 10.1177/0309089215605796