The Bible in the American Short Story
Ebook
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 Kirstin 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.
Reads stories by such authors as Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth and Kirstin Valdez Quade alongside the biblical passages that inspired them to explore the influence of the Bible in the postwar American short story.
Two of the leading scholars in the field of religion and literature explore Biblical influences in the post-war American short story
Each chapter close-reads a story by a leading American author alongside the Bible passage that inspired it
Examines stories by such writers as Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Tobias Wolff, and Kirstin Valdez Quade
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
- Title: The Bible in the American Short Story
- Authors: Peter S. Hawkins, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781474237178, 9781350111615, 1350111619, 1474237177
- Resource ID: LLS:9781474237178
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-11T02:23:38Z
Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Associate Professor in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Colgate University,USA. She is author of Sustaining Fiction: Midrash, Intertextuality, Translation and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible, as well as articles on the Bible in literature and contemporary culture.
Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale University Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts, USA. His previous books include Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination and The Poet's Dante: Twentieth Century Reflections.