The Bible in the American short story / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins.

Author
Stahlberg, Lesleigh Cushing [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
xvii, 234 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    New directions in religion and literature [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "The Bible in the American Short Story examines Biblical influences in the post-World War II American short story. In a series of accessible chapters, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins pair close-readings of short stories by leading contemporary writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Tobias Wolff and Julia Valdez Quade with examinations of the biblical passages that they reference. Exploring episodes from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament and both Jewish and Christian heritages, this book is an important contribution to understanding the influence of the Bible in contemporary literature."--Page 4 of cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-227) and indexes.
    Contents
    • Preface
    • America as a biblical nation and the Bible as an American book
    • The short story as an American genre
    • The greatest stories ever told
    • Flannery O'Connor
    • Allegra Goodman
    • John Updike
    • Jamie Quatro
    • Steven Millhauser
    • Kirstin Valdez Quade
    • Tobias Wolff
    • Bernard Malamud
    • Nathan Englander.
    ISBN
    • 1474237169
    • 9781474237161
    OCLC
    951925277
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