Oct 23, 2010

Point of View: Four Planes

  
Yesterday I talked about point of view. Today I want to introduce four “planes” in which point of view is expressed. Borrowing from the work of Boris Uspensky, James Resseguie identifies and discusses four different “planes” of point of view:

1. Phraseological point of view which seeks to ask and answer what words and phrases are used in a narrative.

2. Spatial-Temporal point of view which seeks to ask and answer where and when are the events narrated.


3. Psychological point of view which seeks to ask and answer what are the characters’ thoughts and behaviors.
 
4. Ideological point of view which seeks to ask and answer what are the narrator’s norms, values, and worldview.

James Resseguie, Narrative Criticism in the New Testament: An Introduction (Grand Rapids: Baker, 20905), 169–73.
  

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