The Bible in the American Short Story

Description

The Bible in the American Short Story examines Biblical influences in the post-World War II American short story. In a series of accessible chapters, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins offer close-readings of short stories by leading contemporary writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Allegra Goodman, Tobias Wolff and Kirstin Valdez Quade that highlight the biblical passages that they reference. Exploring episodes from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament and both Jewish and Christian heritages, this book is an important contribution to understanding the influence of the Bible in contemporary literature.

Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Associate Professor in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Colgate University,USA. She is author of Sustaining Fiction: Midrash, Intertextuality, Translation and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible, as well as articles on the Bible in literature and contemporary culture. Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale University Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts, USA. His previous books include Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination and The Poet's Dante: Twentieth Century Reflections.