The Bible in the American Short Story

ISBN-13: 9781474237161 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg; Peter S. Hawkins; Emma Mason

Opis

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 Julia 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.

Spis treści

Preface 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 Bibliography Index