Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings: Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes

Contents\nIntroduction\nChapter One: A Survey of Literary Rewriting of the Bible\nChapter Two: The Book of Job Across Time\nChapter Three: Uriah Transposed and Amplified\nChapter Four: Lilith and the Reinvented Bible\nChapter Five: Angels of Death or Angels of Mercy? The Biblical Archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael in Literature\nChapter Six: Three Early Twentieth-Century Excursionists: H. Rider Haggard, John Masefield and Claude McKay\nChapter Seven: Four Later Twentieth-Century Excursionists: A.M. Klein, Moshe Shamir, Michel Tournier and Sylvie Germain\nChapter Eight: Escaping the Straitjacket: Philip Pullman, Richard Beard, Amos Oz, Christopher Moore and Colm Toíbín\nChapter Nine: The Hidden Truth: Seven More Rewritings (Louis Levy, Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Leopoldo Marechal, Derek Walcott, Jeanette Winterson, and Hugo Loetscher)\nChapter Ten: The Great Disrupters: D.H. Lawrence, C.J. Jung, Alan Sillitoe, Christa Wolf, Lucille Clifton and José Saramago\nChapter Eleven: Conclusions\nAppendix One: Summary of Genette’s Main Categories in Palimpsets (Adjusted to Biblical Rewriting)\nAppendix Two: A Reader’s Guide\nAbbreviations\nBibliography\nNames of Authors\nTitles of Principal Anonymous Works\nBiblical Themes