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The Bible in the American Short Story
The Bible in the American Short Story
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Description
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 offer close-readings of short stories by leading contemporary writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Allegra Goodman, Tobias Wolff and Kirstin Valdez Quade that highlight 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.
Table of Contents
1. America as a Biblical Nation and the Bible as an American Book
2. The Short Story as an American Genre
3. The Greatest Stories Ever Told
4. Flannery O'Connor
5. Allegra Goodman
6. John Updike
7. Jamie Quatro
8. Steven Millhauser
9. Kirstin Valdez Quade
10. Tobias Wolff
11. Bernard Malamud
12. Nathan Englander
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Index
Product details

Published | Nov 02 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781474237178 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Series | New Directions in Religion and Literature |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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