| Description |
383 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The Bible in literature courses |
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Bible in literature courses.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hawthorne's use of the Bible in The scarlet letter / Roland Bartel -- Allegory in "Rappaccini's daughter" / Oliver Evans -- Melville's use of the Bible in Billy Budd / Roland Bartel -- Melville's use of the Bible in Moby-Dick / Nathalia Wright -- Paton's use of the Bible in Cry, the beloved country / Roland Bartel -- Mayor of Casterbridge and the Old Testament's first Book of Samuel: a study of some literary relationships / Julian Moynahan -- Biblical layer in Franz Kafka's short story "A country doctor" / Hillel Barzel -- Theme of the fall in Albert Camus' The fall / Willaim R. Mueller -- Function of Christian imagery in The fall / Sandy Petrey -- Humor of the absurd: Mark Twain's Adamic diaries / Stanley Brodwin -- Biblical interpretation in Huckleberry Finn, chapter 14 / Stuart Lewis -- Of mice and men: John Steinbeck's parable of the curse of Cain / William Goldhurst -- Brand of Cain in "The secret sharer" / Porter Williams, Jr. -- Rending of the veil in W.E.B. DuBois's The souls of black folk / Jerold J. Savory -- Hemingway's ancient mariner / Carlos Baker -- Ironic Christ figure in Slaughterhouse-five ; Christ figures in modern literature: an annotated bibliography / Dolores K. Gros Louis -- Brief comments on other works of fiction with biblical allusions ; Teaching Wilfred Owen's war poems and the Bible / Roland Bartel -- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) ; A.E. Housman (1859-1936) ; Arna Bontemps / commentary by Roland Bartel -- Brief interpretation of "Journey of the magi" / Elizabeth Drew -- Karl Shapiro's "Adam and Eve" / Frederick Eckman -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) -- Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950) -- Edwin Muir (1887-1959) -- D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- Bible in Negro spirituals ; Two biblical passages that have appealed to poets / Roland Bartel -- Biblical angels and English shepherds: the gospel tradition in The second shepherds' play / C. Clifford Flanigan -- Shakespeare's use of scripture / Edna Moore Robinson -- Christopher Fry's use of the Bible in A sleep of prisoners / John H. Hafner -- Biblical perversions in Desire under the elms / Peter L. Hays -- How genuine is The green pastures? / Nick Aaron Ford -- Green pastures again / Doris B. Garey -- MacLeish's J.B. / Murray Roston -- MacLeish's J.B.: is it a modern Job? / W.D. White -- Teaching Job and J.B. / Ruth D. Hallman -- About a trespass on a monument / Archibald MacLeish. |
| Subject |
Bible -- In literature.
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| Added Author |
Bartel, Roland.
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| ISBN |
0687034396 |
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9780687034390 |
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