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The Gospel According to the Novelist: Religious Scripture and Contemporary Fiction (New Directions in Religion and Literature) by Magdalena Maczynska, Mark Knight, Emma Mason is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Gospel According to the Novelist: Religious Scripture and Contemporary Fiction (New Directions in Religion and Literature) about?
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 posi
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It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Magdalena Maczynska, Mark Knight, Emma Mason
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780935782
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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