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F. Segovia has conducted an examination of the literary genre of John, although within a more historical context. Rightly he refers the Gospel to the biographical genre of antiquity. F. Segovia, 'The Joumey(s) of the Word of God: A Reading of the Plot of the Fourth Gospel', Semeia 53 (1991), pp. 23-54. 19. Stibbe refers to the English translation of P. Ricoeur, Time and Narrativity, I, II (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, 1986). 20. B. Gallie, Philosophy and the Historical Understanding (London: Chatto & Windus, 1964).
Culpepper defines the literary reading as an approach distinctively different from the historical one; this implies that the two approaches become not alternatives but options. It follows, however, that if the Gospel is read in one way, it cannot simultaneously be read in the other way. Culpepper simply defines the text he is about to interpret, as 'the words ... of the story as recorded in the 26th edition of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece'. Even so, he also considers ch. 21 an addition.
Notably literature is referential. A story refers continuously to actions and events taking place at a time that differs from the time and situations in which the story is told. But the references are to a world that only exists by virtue of the story's reference to it. The story creates this world through its references. We call it the narrative world. We have of course the feeling that this world must mean something in relation to our real world, but the relation is indirect, and I have not yet seen a completely satisfying explanation of this.