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The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature - Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings (Hardcover)
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The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature - Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings (Hardcover)
Series: Biblical Refigurations
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The Parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the best-known stories in
the Bible. It has captured the imagination of commentators,
preachers and writers. Alison M. Jack explores the reconfiguring of
the character of the Prodigal Son and his family in literature in
English. She considers diverse literary periods and genres in which
the paradigm is particularly prevalent, such as Elizabethan
literature, the work of Shakespeare, the novels of female Victorian
writers, the American short story tradition, novels focused on the
lives of ordained ministers, and the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and
Iain Crichton Smith. Drawing on scholarship from biblical and
literary studies, this study demonstrates the remarkable potency of
the parable in generating new, and at times contradictory, meanings
in different contexts. Historical and literary criticism are
brought into dialogue to explore this remarkably resilient and
nimble character as he dances through drama, novels and poetry
across the centuries.
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