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Victorian Parables.
The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and Lazarus and the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. Ho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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| Colección: | New directions in religion and literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents ; Preface; Chapter1 Parable as Literature, Literature as Parable; Towards a Definition of Parable ; Interpreting the Parables: A Brief History ; Interpreting the Parables: Paul Ricoeur's Theory ; Theorizing Extrabiblical Parables ; Chapter2 The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Parable and Realism; The Mimetic Character of Parables ; The Parabolic Character of Realism ; Realism and Religion ; Chapter3 "The Parable of Actual Life": Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe; Chapter4 Prodigal Sons in the Fiction of Margaret Oliphant.