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

Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings : : Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes / / Anthony Swindell.

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 t...

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Swindell, Anthony,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) , 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 223 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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