Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings
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Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings

Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes

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  2. English
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Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings

Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings by Anthony Swindell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Biblical Criticism & Interpretation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783110781847
eBook ISBN
9783110782202
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter One: A Survey of Literary Rewriting of the Bible
  7. Chapter Two: The Book of Job Across Time
  8. Chapter Three: Uriah Transposed and Amplified
  9. Chapter Four: Lilith and the Reinvented Bible
  10. Chapter Five: Angels of Death or Angels of Mercy? The Biblical Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael in Literature
  11. Chapter Six: Three Early Twentieth-Century Excursionists: H. Rider Haggard, John Masefield and Claude McKay
  12. Chapter Seven: Four Later Twentieth-Century Excursionists: A.M. Klein, Moshe Shamir, Michel Tournier and Sylvie Germain
  13. Chapter Eight: Escaping the Straitjacket: Philip Pullman, Richard Beard, Amos Oz, Christopher Moore and Colm Toíbín
  14. Chapter Nine: The Hidden Truth: Seven More Rewritings (Louis Levy, Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Leopoldo Marechal, Derek Walcott, Jeanette Winterson, and Hugo Loetscher)
  15. Chapter Ten: The Great Disrupters: D.H. Lawrence, C.J. Jung, Alan Sillitoe, Christa Wolf, Lucille Clifton and José Saramago
  16. Chapter Eleven: Conclusions
  17. Names of Authors
  18. Titles of Principal Anonymous Works
  19. Biblical Themes