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God is dead, Nietzsche famously declared in The Gay Science; but this book will investigate God's surprising persistence and resurrection in the works of even the most seemingly atheistic of writers, who continue to deploy Judaic and Christian narratives and tropes even as they radically rewrite them in the face of new cultural, political, and scientific imperatives. Contributors to Figures of Heresy explore the range, power, and implication of Christian and Jewish heresies in canonical Anglo-American writersincluding Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, T. S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, and Jim Craceas well as in some less familiar texts: the Mormon scriptures of Joseph Smith and various Victorian rewritings of the Book of Esther. A polemical essay by Michelene Wandor reflects on conceptions of Jewishness, which she finds in need of heretical renewal. Valentine Cunningham's provocative introduction argues that the acts of literary writing and reading are necessarily

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Figures of Heresy
• Author: Andrew Dix
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9781845190262
• ISBN: 1845190262
• ID: 05128464
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 160 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2005

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