From around the globe
Subtitle: secular authors and biblical perspectives
By: edited by Seodial Frank H. Deena, Karoline Szatek.
Contributors: Deena, Seodial F. H. 1956-.; Szatek, Karoline.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780761836278
Subjects: Bible -- In literature; Bible and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Bible as Babel: the Suspicions of Dorothy L. Sayers / Crystal Downing; title: Yvette Nolan's Job's Wife: The Center's Reaction / Jana Leigh Karika; title: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: The Biblical Perspective / Trish Clark; title: Djuna Barnes's Revision of Biblical Genealogies in her novel Ryder / Martina Stange; title: The Measure of Un-marked Vows in Two Early Modern English Dramas / Karoline Szatek; title: The Country House Poem and the Christian Ethos / Eric Sterling; title: Biblical Allusion Through an Ironic Filter in Swift's Gulliver's Travels / Edward J. Rielly; title: Members of God's Body: Charles Williams's Theory of Co-inherence / Melissa Matyjasik; title: Intimations of Religious Mysticism in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse / O. Quimby Melton; title: Kneading the Texts Through the Practice of Misquotation / Alessandro Monti; title: Biblical Walls and Textual Enclosures as Borders in Kipling's Short Narrative / Esterino Adami; title: Songs of Ascents and Descents: Israeli Modernist Poets and the Hebrew Bible / Leonore Gerstein; title: Justice and the Old/New Jewish Nation in Shulamith Hareven's Thirst: The Desert Trilogy / Ranen Omer-Sherman; title: New History, New Language: Dimensions of Biblical Intertextuality in Rachel's Poetry / Yehudit Heller; title: Postcoloniality, Feminism and the Bible in Ngugi's A Grain of Wheat / Peter W. Mwikisa; title: Missionary Movements, Imperialism & Christianity / Danielle Melvin; title: The Theology and Poetics of Sin and Punishment in Go Tell it on the Mountain / Babacar M'Baye; title: Growing Up Black and Gay in the Heart of the Bible Belt: Randall Kenan's Perspective on Fundamentalist Religion in A Visitation of Spirits / Marie Farr; title: She Had No Self Left: The Sacrificial Love of Miriam in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Hagar in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Sharon Raynor; title: Demonizing the Devil: the Postlapserian World of Zora Neal Hurston's Sweat / Fred M. Fetrow; title: Colonialism and Capitalism: 'The Love of Money is the Root of All Evil' in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea / Seodial F. H. Deena; title: 'What else God make women for?' Subverting the Politics and Spirituality of the Patriarchs in The Hills of Hebron / Maude Adjarian; title: Go Bring Down Goliath: Biblical Reappropriation and Counter-Discourse in Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers / Jana Leigh Karika; title: Judaizing the Secret Practices: Religion and Crypto-Jews in Mexico Through Kathleen Achalá's Spirits of the Ordinary / Gay Wilentz.