Going to extremes in biblical rewritings : radical literary retellings of biblical tropes / Anthony Swindell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swindell, Anthony C., 1950- Author.

Series:

Studies of the Bible and its reception ; v. 22.

Studies of the Bible and its reception, 2195-450X ; volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible--Extra-canonical parallels.

Extra-canonical parallels.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 223 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9783110782141

9783110782202

OCLC:

1371573964