The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters - Hardcover

Wright, Terry R.

 
9780754616689: The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754616681 ISBN 13: 9780754616689
Verlag: Routledge, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

This book considers a range of twentieth-century novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the Book of Genesis which more conventional biblical criticism sometimes ignores. Each chapter considers some of the interpretive challenges of the relevant story in Genesis, especially those noted by rabbinic midrash, which serves as a model for such creative rewriting of the biblical text. All the novelists considered, from Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Thomas Mann to Jeanette Winterson, Anita Diamant and Jenny Diski, are shown to have been aware of the midrashic tradition and in some cases to have incorporated significant elements from it into their own writing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Terry R. Wright is Professor of English Literature at Newcastle University, UK. Other books by Professor Wright include Theology and Literature, The Religion of Humanity, D.H. Lawrence and the Bible and several books about George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0754616681
ISBN 13 
9780754616689
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
200
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