Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings: Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes

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Titel: Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings : Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: A Survey of Literary Rewriting of the Bible
Chapter Two: The Book of Job Across Time
Chapter Three: Uriah Transposed and Amplified
Chapter Four: Lilith and the Reinvented Bible
Chapter Five: Angels of Death or Angels of Mercy? The Biblical Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael in Literature
Chapter Six: Three Early Twentieth-Century Excursionists: H. Rider Haggard, John Masefield and Claude McKay
Chapter Seven: Four Later Twentieth-Century Excursionists: A.M. Klein, Moshe Shamir, Michel Tournier and Sylvie Germain
Chapter Eight: Escaping the Straitjacket: Philip Pullman, Richard Beard, Amos Oz, Christopher Moore and Colm Toíbín
Chapter Nine: The Hidden Truth: Seven More Rewritings (Louis Levy, Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Leopoldo Marechal, Derek Walcott, Jeanette Winterson, and Hugo Loetscher)
Chapter Ten: The Great Disrupters: D.H. Lawrence, C.J. Jung, Alan Sillitoe, Christa Wolf, Lucille Clifton and José Saramago
Chapter Eleven: Conclusions
Appendix One: Summary of Genette’s Main Categories in Palimpsets (Adjusted to Biblical Rewriting)
Appendix Two: A Reader’s Guide
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Names of Authors
Titles of Principal Anonymous Works
Biblical Themes

Beteiligte: Swindell, Anthony C. [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 223 p.); Illustrationen

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9783110782141

ISBN: 9783110782141; 9783110782202

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Schlagwörter: Cultural Studies ; Reception History ; Reception Studies ; Religion and Literature

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Klappentext: This book sets out to provide a matrix for surveying the literary treatment of biblical tropes. It supplies an overview of the literary reception of the Bible from the earliest times right through to contemporary writers such as Jeanette Winterson and Colm Tóibín, traces the literary reception and treatment of the Book of Job; the figure of Uriah in the narrative of David and Bathsheba; the figure of Lilith; and Angels of Death and of Mercy. These are all handled as specimen histories. This is followed by an examination of the output of several specific early and later Twentieth-Century rewriters of the Bible. In the last chapters, three sets of other writers under particular headings ("the Great Disrupters" etc.) are grouped together with a view to finding common characteristics as well as unique features in their approach to biblical tropes and provide conclusions and suggestions for further research.

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