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The Bible and Literature: The Basics
Contributor(s): W. Jones, Norman (Author)
ISBN: 0415738865     ISBN-13: 9780415738866
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $25.60  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 809.935
LCCN: 2015021802
Series: Basics
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.40 lbs) 180 pages
 
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The Bible and Literature: The Basics provides an interpretive framework for understanding the significance of biblical allusions in literature--even for readers who have little prior knowledge of the Bible. In doing so, it surveys the Bible's influence on a broad range of English, American, and other Anglophone literatures from a variety of historical periods. It also:

  • offers a greatest hits tour of the Bible
  • focuses as much on 20th- and 21st-century literatures as on earlier periods
  • addresses the Bible's relevance to contemporary issues in literary criticism such as poststructuralist, postcolonial, feminist, queer, and narrative theories
  • includes discussion questions for each chapter and annotated suggestions for further reading

This book explains why readers need a basic knowledge of the Bible in order to understand and appreciate key aspects of Anglophone literary traditions.