Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings: Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes

Anthony Swindell

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Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings

Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes

Anthony Swindell

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 22 | Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR)

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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Anthony Swindell lives in Mid Wales and is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Chester and Area Editor (Literature) of the Encyclopedia of the Bible & Its Reception (EBR).

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

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eBook published on:

March 6, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9783110782141

Hardcover published on:

March 6, 2023

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110781847

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Front matter:

7

Main content:

223

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4

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110782141

eBook ISBN: 9783110782141

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110781847

Keywords for this book

Reception History; Reception Studies; Cultural Studies; Religion and Literature.

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Scholars in the fields of Theology, Bible and its Reception, Literature.

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Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings

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