The Genesis of Fiction
Author OL3505302A
"This book considers a range of twentieth-century novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the Book of Genesis which more conventional biblical criticism sometimes ignores. Each chapter considers some of the interpretive challenges of the relevant story in Genesis, especially those noted by rabbinic midrash, which serves as a model for such creative rewriting of the biblical text."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Twain, mark, 1835-1910Steinbeck, john, 1902-1968Mann, thomas, 1875-1955Bible, in literatureAmerican fiction, history and criticism, 20th centuryEnglish fiction, history and criticism, 20th centuryReligion in literatureReligion and literatureIn literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistoryReligion