New Stories for Old

Biblical Patterns in the Novel

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

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This text explores the biblical influence on the style and structure of works by Fielding, Defoe, Eliot, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others. Kafka's "The Trial" has been termed a "midrash" on the book of Job (Northrop Frye). But this book concludes that it is also a debate with Job. Whilst other novelists could not manage without the Bible, at the same time "it would not do". The book concludes with two chapters on the Israeli novelists, S.Y. Agnon and A.B. Yehoshua. The study of theology and religion calls upon a wide range of interdisciplinary skills and cultural perspectives to illuminate the concerns at the heart of religious faith. Books in this series variously explore the contributions made by literature, philosophy and science in forming our historical and contemporary understanding of religious issues and theological perspectives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1998-04-30
Mått140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCross Currents in Religion and Culture
Antal sidor236
Upplaga1998
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333714096

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HAROLD FISCH, now Professor Emeritus in English Literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, was rector of that university from 1968-1971. A graduate of Sheffield and Oxford, he has taught at Leeds University and has been a guest lecturer at Brown, Yale, Maryland and elsewhere. He is well-known as a scholar and critic with an equal mastery of English literature and Hebrew and biblical studies. Among his publications are: Jerusalem and Albion: the Hebraic Factor in Seventeenth Century Literature, Hamlet and the Word: the Covenant Pattern in Shakespeare, A Remembered Future: a Study in Literary Mythology, and Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation.

Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY Dialogue and Repetition PART TWO: BIBLICAL REALISM AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL Robinson's Biblical Island 'Imitation' in Joseph Andrews Natural Piety in Silas Marner PART THREE: JOB IN MODERN FICTION Kafka's Debate with Job Being Possessed by Job Biblical Patterns for Sale: The Fixer PART FOUR: ISAAC UNBOUND Saul Bellow and Philip Roth The Akedah in A.B. Yehoshua The Day before Yesterday Index