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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: prodigal son in English and American literature
    sub title: five hundred years of literary homecomings
  name:
    name part: Jack, Alison M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 177 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Alison M. Jack.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-172) and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Prodigal son (Parable) in literature
  classification: PR145 .J33 2019
  classification: 820.9382268
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Biblical refigurations
  identifier: 0198817290
  identifier: 9780198817291
  identifier: 2018947652
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180619
    record change date: 20190718162227.0
    record identifier: in00004057246