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How Contemporary Novelists Rewrite Stories from the Bible [electronic resource] : The Interpretation of Scripture in Literature
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swindell, Anthony Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Hermeneutics.
- Bible--In literature.
- Bible and literature.
- Bible.
- Local Subjects:
- Bible--Hermeneutics.
- Bible--In literature.
- Bible and literature.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work examines fourteen reception-histories of single biblical stories, published in English between 1972 and 2002. They cover the topics of Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Flood, Solomon and Sheba, Jezebel, Job, Judith, Jonah, the Magi, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Pilate, Judas and the Apocalypse.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter Two: A Survey of the Principal Texts; Chapter Three: Rewriting Scripture: Eight Theorists; Chapter Four: Finding Theology in the Fourteen Reception-Histories; Chapter Five: Vox Dei; Chapter Six: Variations on a Theme; Chapter Seven: The Other in Theology and Postmoden Thought; Chapter Eight: Analysing the Fourteen Studies as Literary Structures; Chapter Nine: Conflations, Convergences, Contaminations, and Intertexts; Chapter Ten: Range How the Fourteen Studies Cover the Ground
- Chapter Eleven: Nodal PointsChapter Twelve A Comparison with the Reception-Histories of Ulysses, Ovid and the Tempest; Chapter Thirteen: Clsoure, non-Closure, Ideologies and Canons; Chapter Fourteen: Conclusions: The Hermeneutical Value of Literary Reception-Histories; Appendix A: Further Excursions in Rewriting; Appendix B: Review of Most Doubting Thomas; Appendix C: Revisiting Rewriting. The Relevance of Julie Sanders: Adaptation and Appropriation (2006) To This Study; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2112-2
- OCLC:
- 781628758
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