The Bible in the American short story /
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,...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.,
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | New directions in religion and literature.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1587585 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- America as a Biblical nation and the Bible as an American book
- The short story as an American genre
- The greatest stories ever told
- Flannery O'Connor
- Allegra Goodman
- John Updike
- Jamie Quatro
- Steven Millhauser
- Kirstin Valdez Quade
- Tobias Wolff
- Bernard Malamud
- Nathan Englander