Provincializing the Bible - Faulkner and Postsecular American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Norman W. Jones is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. Author of The Bible and Literature: The Basics as well as Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative , he is also co-editor of The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences . Zusammenfassung Why, in our supposedly secular age, does the Bible feature prominently in so many influential and innovative works of contemporary U.S. literature? More pointedly, why would a book indelibly allied with a long history of institutionalized oppressions play a supporting role—and not simply as an object of critique—in a wide variety of landmark literary representations of marginalized subjectivities? The answers to these questions go beyond mere playful re-appropriations or subversive resignifications of biblical themes, figures, and forms. This book shows how certain contemporary authors invoke the Bible in ways that undermine clear distinctions between "subversive" and "traditional"—indeed, that undermine clear distinctions between "secular" and "sacred." By tracing a key source of such complex literary invocations of the Bible back to William Faulkner’s major novels, Provincializing the Bible argues that these literary works, which might be termed postsecular, ironically provincialize the Bible as a means of reevaluating and revalorizing its significance in contemporary American culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1: The Bible as Ghost in Faulkner’s Novels; 2: The Literary as Biblical; 3: Eggshell Shibboleths as Intertextual Marginalization; 4: Postsecular Reading as Eucharistically Queer; Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Norman Jones, Norman (Ohio State University Jones, Norman W. Jones, Norman W. (Ohio State University Jones, Jones Norman W.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2018
• EAN: 9781138502123
• ISBN: 978-1-138-50212-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, RELIGION / Biblical Commentary / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000