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New Stories for Old H. Fisch

New Stories for Old By H. Fisch

New Stories for Old by H. Fisch


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Harold Fisch explores the biblical influence on the style and structure of landmark works by Fielding, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others. Whilst the great novelists could not manage without the Bible, at the same time 'it would not do'. The book concludes with two chapters on the Israeli novelists S.Y. Agnon and A.B. Yehoshua.

New Stories for Old Summary

New Stories for Old: Biblical Patterns in the Novel by H. Fisch

Harold Fisch explores the biblical influence on the style and structure of landmark works by Fielding, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others. Whilst the great novelists could not manage without the Bible, at the same time 'it would not do'. The book concludes with two chapters on the Israeli novelists S.Y. Agnon and A.B. Yehoshua.

New Stories for Old Reviews

'...testifies to its author's range, deftness, and subtlety.' - Haim Chertok, Congress Monthly

About H. Fisch

HAROLD FISCH, now Professor Emeritus in English Literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, was rector of that university from 1968-1971. A graduate of Sheffield and Oxford, he has taught at Leeds University and has been a guest lecturer at Brown, Yale, Maryland and elsewhere. He is well-known as a scholar and critic with an equal mastery of English literature and Hebrew and biblical studies. Among his publications are: Jerusalem and Albion: the Hebraic Factor in Seventeenth Century Literature, Hamlet and the Word: the Covenant Pattern in Shakespeare, A Remembered Future: a Study in Literary Mythology, and Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation.

Table of Contents

Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY Dialogue and Repetition PART TWO: BIBLICAL REALISM AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL Robinson's Biblical Island 'Imitation' in Joseph Andrews Natural Piety in Silas Marner PART THREE: JOB IN MODERN FICTION Kafka's Debate with Job Being Possessed by Job Biblical Patterns for Sale: The Fixer PART FOUR: ISAAC UNBOUND Saul Bellow and Philip Roth The Akedah in A.B. Yehoshua The Day before Yesterday Index

Additional information

NPB9780333714096
9780333714096
0333714091
New Stories for Old: Biblical Patterns in the Novel by H. Fisch
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
1998-04-30
236
N/A
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