"Who knows what we'd make of it, if we ever got our hands on it?" the Bible and Margaret Atwood

Introduction : getting our hands on it / Rhiannon Graybill and Peter J. Sabo -- "Always a potent object"? : the shifting role of the Bible in Margaret Atwood's novels / Hannah M. Strømmen -- Margaret Atwood's survival as prophetic Canadian nation-building / Sara Parks and Anna Cw...

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Weitere Verfasser: Graybill, Rhiannon (HerausgeberIn), Sabo, Peter J (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Biblical intersections 18
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : getting our hands on it / Rhiannon Graybill and Peter J. Sabo -- "Always a potent object"? : the shifting role of the Bible in Margaret Atwood's novels / Hannah M. Strømmen -- Margaret Atwood's survival as prophetic Canadian nation-building / Sara Parks and Anna Cwikla / The handmaid's tale, the Bible, and the Canadian Residential School System : a dystopian warning / Maryann Amor -- Margaret Atwood's speculative Bibles : "First the bad things, then the story / Richard Walsh -- Margaret Atwood's primordial myth / Jennifer L. Koosed -- Eschatologically expecting : reading apocalyptic childbirth through Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's tale / Alexis Felder Boyer -- "You should not take baths outside in the garden" : Alias Grace, the male gaze, and Susanna and the Elders / Peter J. Sabo -- Writing re-vision : on Margaret Atwood's rewriting of canon as poststructuralist midrash / Robert Paul Seesengood -- The snake, the poet : art and duplicity in Margaret Atwood's poetry and the Hebrew Bible / Sean Burt -- Queer animalities in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy and the Hebrew Bible / Ken Stone -- How to live at the end of the world : the Bible and theology in the climate dystopias of Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler / Meredith Minister -- Surfacing in the wild : the heroine's journey through the lens of the biblical Midbar / Sarah E.G. Fein -- Grace be to you in the presence of the past : ghosts, hauntings, and traumatic dissociations in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and the Gospel of John / Sarah Emanuel -- Mirrors of grace : undoing Paul in Atwood's Alias Grace / Jay Twomey -- The long pen, future library,   and biblical prophecy : thinking writing with Margaret Atwood / Rhiannon Graybill -- Arcane energy : an afterword on the Bible and The Testaments / Peter J. Sabo and Rhiannon Graybill.
"In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and quoted by children, atheists, and murderers alike-the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. The Bible is found not only in her novels but also in her poetry, short stories, and non-fiction work. "Who Knows What We'd Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?" assembles cutting edge literary and critical readings of Margaret Atwood and the Bible"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:xvi, 421 Seiten
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