Bible and Literature: The Basics
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A History of the English Bible as Literature
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Adam and Eve
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Alison Jack's The Bible and Literature
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Anglophone fiction analysis
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Apocalyptic Writings
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Babylon
Beowulf
Bible's Depictions
Bible's Reception History
biblical allusions
Book of Job
Bram Stoker Dracula
Broad Cultural Trends
Cain and Abel
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Color Purple
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David and Bathsheba
David Norton
David's Son
Deathly Hallows
Deep Mire
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destructive miracle
disability studies
Douai Rheims Bible
Dream of the Rood
Dystopian Fiction
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El Shaddai
Elizabeth Bishop The Prodigal
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encounters with divinity
English Bible Translations
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Ernest Hemingway
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Exodus
feminism
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur and Pied Beauty
God's Justice
God’s Grandeur and Pied Beauty
Gospel narratives
Imaginative Literature
interpreting biblical themes in novels
introductory literary studies
J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain
Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso
Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson's Oranges
Jeanie C. Crain
John Milton Paradise Lost
Judas
judgement
key symbols
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Leaves of Grass
Leland Ryken's How to Read the Bible as Literature
Leland Ryken’s How to Read the Bible as Literature
Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony
Man's Blindness
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale
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miracles
MIRACULOUS RECREATIONS
moral failings
Morality
Moses and the Israelites
narrative arc of the Bible
narrative theory applications
Nathan's Story
New Testament
Noah
Northrop Frye
Othello
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postcolonial literary theory
postcolonial studies
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Reading the Bible as Literature
redemption
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Rhys's Wide Sargasso
Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
sacrificial lamb
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children
Samuel's Sons
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secularism in literature
sexuality studies
Shakespeare Hamlet Claudius Psalm 51
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Song of Songs
Sunday Morning
Tanakh
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the Ark of the Covenant
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
the flood
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
The King James Bible after 400 Years
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
the Passover
the Psalms
The Road
The Sun Also Rises
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Toni Morrison Beloved
Tony Kushner Angels in America
Torah
Twentyfirst Century Societies
UNEXPECTED HEROES
Virginia Woolf The Waves
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
William Blake
William Faulkner
Wordsworth Tintern Abbey
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415738842
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The Bible and Literature: The Basics provides an interpretive framework for understanding the significance of biblical allusions in literature—even for readers who have little prior knowledge of the Bible. In doing so, it surveys the Bible’s influence on a broad range of English, American, and other Anglophone literatures from a variety of historical periods. It also:
- offers a "greatest hits" tour of the Bible
- focuses as much on 20th- and 21st-century literatures as on earlier periods
- addresses the Bible’s relevance to contemporary issues in literary criticism such as poststructuralist, postcolonial, feminist, queer, and narrative theories
- includes discussion questions for each chapter and annotated suggestions for further reading
This book explains why readers need a basic knowledge of the Bible in order to understand and appreciate key aspects of Anglophone literary traditions.
Norman W. Jones is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University. He has published numerous essays and books about the interplay of religion and literature. His work has appeared in top journals such as American Literature, Christianity and Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and Studies in American Fiction.
