Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter One: A Survey of Literary Rewriting of the Bible 10
5. Chapter Two: The Book of Job Across Time 42
6. Chapter Three: Uriah Transposed and Amplified 76
7. Chapter Four: Lilith and the Reinvented Bible 89
8. Chapter Five: Angels of Death or Angels of Mercy? The Biblical Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael in Literature 108
9. Chapter Six: Three Early Twentieth-Century Excursionists: H. Rider Haggard, John Masefield and Claude McKay 124
10. Chapter Seven: Four Later Twentieth-Century Excursionists: A.M. Klein, Moshe Shamir, Michel Tournier and Sylvie Germain 135
11. Chapter Eight: Escaping the Straitjacket: Philip Pullman, Richard Beard, Amos Oz, Christopher Moore and Colm Toíbín 150
12. Chapter Nine: The Hidden Truth: Seven More Rewritings (Louis Levy, Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Leopoldo Marechal, Derek Walcott, Jeanette Winterson, and Hugo Loetscher) 168
13. Chapter Ten: The Great Disrupters: D.H. Lawrence, C.J. Jung, Alan Sillitoe, Christa Wolf, Lucille Clifton and José Saramago 180
14. Chapter Eleven: Conclusions 190
15. Appendix One: Summary of Genette’s Main Categories in Palimpsets (Adjusted to Biblical Rewriting) 204
16. Appendix Two: A Reader’s Guide 207
17. Abbreviations 210
18. Bibliography 211
19. Names of Authors 220
20. Titles of Principal Anonymous Works 222
21. Biblical Themes 223