................................................................................................................................... i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................ iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................ iv A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................... vii LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................... ix INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 1 INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING JESUS’ (IM)POLITENESS ......................... 4 1. (Im)politeness from different viewpoints: Contributions ................................................. 4 1.1. (Im)politeness from a biblical and historical viewpoint .................................................. 4 1.1.1. Luke Timothy Johnson ............................................................................................. 4 1.1.2. Benjamin Thomas and Johan Coetzee ...................................................................... 6 1.1.3. Edward Bridge ........................................................................................................ 11 1.1.4. Ludwig Köhler and Konrad Ehlich ......................................................................... 15 1.1.5. Marina Terkourafi ................................................................................................... 18 1.1.6. Andrew Wilson ....................................................................................................... 20 1.2. (Im)politeness in specific Matthean texts ...................................................................... 22 1.2.1. (Im)politeness and the Canaanite woman ............................................................... 23 1.2.2. (Im)politeness in Matt 23 ........................................................................................ 26 1.2.3. (Im)politeness and verbal violence ......................................................................... 31 2. Filling in the gap: Purpose ................................................................................................. 32 CHAPTER 2 METHODOLOGY, PRESUPPOSITIONS AND DEFINITIONS ......................................... 33 1. Methodology and presuppositions ..................................................................................... 33 1.1. Presuppositions: Locating myself .................................................................................. 34 1.2. Methodology .................................................................................................................. 36 1.2.1. Inner texture: The text and the reader ..................................................................... 37 1.2.2. Intertexture: Ancient texts and the reader ............................................................... 39 1.2.3. Social and cultural texture: A reading model ......................................................... 41 2. (Im)politeness from a theoretical viewpoint ..................................................................... 44 2.1. First-order politeness ..................................................................................................... 44 2.2. Second-order politeness ................................................................................................. 47 3. The term (im)politeness in this research ........................................................................... 56 4. Summary .............................................................................................................................. 57

The (Im)Polite Jesus: An Analysis of Jesus' Verbal Rudeness in Matthew's Gospel

One factor contributing to the Putin regime's popularity is its remasculinization of Russia by creating attractive images of national masculinity and attributing masculine characteristics to the country, while the opposition seeks to counteract this activity.

The Remasculinization of Russia?: Gender, Nationalism, and the Legitimation of Power Under Vladimir Putin

Ein Paradigmenwechsel Mitte der 1990er Jahre hat in der Slavistik die Gegenwartsliteratur als Thema etabliert, allerdings betraf er vor allem die postmoderne Prosa. Die Dichtung (Lyrik) erfuhr lange Zeit wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Diese Arbeit stellt einen der wichtigsten russischen Dichter der letzten Jahrzehnte vor: Timur Kibirov (*1955). Kibirovs Verstexte sind ein Seismograph der gesellschaftlichen Prozesse im spätund postsowjetischen Russland. Immer wieder fragen sie nach moralischen, ästhetischen und religiösen Werten. Sie suchen nach einem Mittelweg zwischen den Extremen der ideologischen Verfestigung und des postmodernen Relativismus, ob sie in konzeptualistischer Manier sowjetische Ideologie dekonstruieren oder postmodern für Moral und Glauben agitieren.

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Timur Kibirovs dichterisches Werk in seiner Entwicklung (1979–2009)

Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than \"irony,\" and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies-and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its \"clear\" and \"obvious\" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting \"what the words say\" and reconstructing \"what the author means\"? In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls \"stable irony,\" irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilities-ironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the \"infinite absolute negativities\" that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic period. Professor Booth is always ironically aware that no one can fathom the unfathomable. But by looking closely at unstable ironists like Samuel Becket, he shows that at least some of our commonplaces about meaninglessness require revision. Finally, he explores-with the help of Plato-the wry paradoxes that threaten any uncompromising assertion that all assertion can be undermined by the spirit of irony.

A Rhetoric of Irony

Loving money : moral commerce in the works of Sarah Scott

In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a century earlier. Private and government forces joined to celebrate a literary figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh perspective. Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous "Pushkin Speech" shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in nineteenth-century Russia.

Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880

An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great's Debate with Chappe d'Auteroche over Russian Culture

Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture

The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understandingthe world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupationwith sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in RussianOrthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucialrole in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity.Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilantself-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The bookexamines verbal constructs of sight in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir that provide evidence for understanding thespecial character of vision of the epoch. Levitt s groundbreaking workrepresents both a new reading of various central and lesser known textsand a broader revisualization of Russian eighteenth-century culture.Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature andthe visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modernperiod or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russiais an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interestto scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, andspecialists on the Enlightenment."

Marcus C. Levitt

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Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880

An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great's Debate with Chappe d'Auteroche over Russian Culture

Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture

The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture.