narrative analysis tools in Logos

Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

Does Logos have access to narrative analysis tools other than passage analysis?

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,067 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There are a couple of interactives oriented towards narrative - Bible people visual timelines and Narrative character maps. Some of the event oriented labels, semantic roles, discourse analysis, and figurative speech coding are useful but in general Logos is not narrative oriented. One can use Canvas in some instances.

    What narrative analysis tools are you looking for? motifs? type scenes? verbal oceans (requirement that exist before another verb can be used e.g. you cannot sell something before you own it or make it)? narrative flow (climax, denouement)? character analysis? narratology? rhetorical? archetypical? Girardian analysis? Griemas analysis? (Bakhkin, Levi-Strauss, Bal, Barthes, narrative theology? ...)

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭

    I am looking for character analysis, narratology and rhetorical analysis

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,067 ✭✭✭✭✭

    character analysis

    Character analysis - Logos gathers raw data together (e.g. all names known by, all references to, genealogies, places associated with ...) in Factbook. Semantic roles can be useful as well.

    Rhetorical analysis - Logos has some commentaries with a rhetorical emphasis, two figurative speech analysis with different models, discourse analysis ... to get you started.

    Narratology - at the moment primarily Jewish authors come to mind - Alter, Kugel, Bal, Sternberg, Halbertal ... Logos is weak on resources as well as analysis tools.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."