Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus
Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus

Author: Theodore Ziolkowski

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2002-04-12

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1579109314

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Many novels revolve round the figure of Jesus. Some of the finest of them are defined by Ziolkowski as fictional transfigurations of Jesus. They share a modern hero patterned on Jesus the culture-hero, whose life consisted of the motifs of the last supper, lonely agony, betrayal, trial, and crucifixion. The aesthetic challenge of adapting this most familiar story for their generation has attracted an unusual number of great writers, among them Papini, Kazantzakis, Hesse, Mann, Greene, Faulkner, and Gore Vidal. The form began with the new image of a humanized Jesus which developed in the 19th century. The interest in religious paranoia and hysteria at the turn of the century instantly expanded its potentialities as novelists began to explore the theme of christomania. This was followed by studies of Jesus as a mythic figure and then Marxist-oriented portraits of Comrade Jesus. Finally the form became inverted into parody in the Fifth Gospels in which not Jesus, but Judas, is the central figure.

Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

Author: Daphne Patai

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780838631324

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Analyzing the thematic and formal characteristics of six contemporary Brazilian novels, this study explores the use of myth and its ideological implications. The writers examined are Maria Alice Barroso, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, Carlos Heitor Cony, Adonias Filho, and Autran Dourado.

Jesus in the Victorian Novel
Jesus in the Victorian Novel

Author: Jessica Ann Hughes

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1350278173

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This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faith-even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus' identity to evolve.

Novel Theology
Novel Theology

Author: Darren J. N. Middleton

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780865546240

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Literature and theology constantly (de)construct each other. Suggesting that this (de)constructive assignment is one that cannot but be "in process itself," Middleton returns to it throughout his study.".

The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction
The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction

Author: José M. Yebra

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1527546438

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This is the first book on Naomi Alderman’s literary production, and highlights the writer’s transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The four novels analysed here prove to be relevant, not only from a literary viewpoint, but also from the fields of ethics, spirituality and politics. The analysis thus focuses on issues such as alterity and respect towards the other in a globalized context. As such, the book will be of interest to literary critics, researchers, and students in the fields of literature, ethics, and social and cultural studies. The reader will find in the text a comprehensive approach to a young writer who undoubtedly deserves attention given her interrogation of varied and socially relevant topics, including gender and sexual orientation in the early twenty-first century, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and the discourse of feminist posthuman dystopias.

The Gospel According to the Novelist
The Gospel According to the Novelist

Author: Magdalena Maczynska

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 178093775X

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Why have so many prominent literary authors-from Philip Pullman and José Saramago to Michèle Roberts and Colm Tóibím-recently rewritten the canonical story of Jesus Christ? What does that say about our supposedly secular age? In this insightful study, Magdalena Maczynska defines and examines the genre of scriptural metafiction: novels that not only transform religious texts but also draw attention to these transformations. In addition to providing rich examples and close readings, Maczynska positions literary studies within interdisciplinary debates about religion and secularity. Her book demonstrates a surprising turn of events: even as contemporary novelists deconstruct the traditional categories of “secular” and “sacred” writing, they open up new spaces for scripture in contemporary culture.

Reading the Gospels in the Dark
Reading the Gospels in the Dark

Author: Richard Walsh

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-10-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781563383878

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Films with Jesus or Jesus-like characters have been part of movies since the earliest days, and Walsh explores just what kind of impact they have had on their audiences.

The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1920
The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1920

Author: Jennifer Stevens

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1846314704

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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org). Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by mid-to-late-twentieth-century authors such as Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Anthony Burgess. This book looks back further to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when the templates of the majority of today's Gospel fictions and dramas were set down. In doing so, it examines the extent to which significant works of biblical scholarship both influenced and inspired literary works. Focusing on writers such as Oscar Wilde, George Moore and Marie Corelli, this timely new addition to the English Association Monographs series will be essential reading for scholars working at the intersection of literature and theology.