The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature: Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings

ISBN-13: 9780198817291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str.

Alison M. Jack

Opis

This groundbreaking study focuses on the reconfiguring of the character of the Prodigal Son and his family as they appear in drama, novels, and poetry in English from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Recenzje

This book is a valuable contribution to the growing library of works on the literary reception of the Bible.

O autorze

Alison M. Jack is Senior lecturer in Bible and Literature at the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Her publications include Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular: Two Postmodern Perspectives (1999), Scottish Fiction as Gospel Exegesis: Four Case Studies (2010), and The Bible and Literature (2012).