The Echoing Myth. British Biblical Rewritings in Context, 1980s–2010s
The Echoing Myth. British Biblical Rewritings in Context, 1980s–2010s

Author(s): Ewa Rychter
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: British novel; Bible; myth; rewriting
Summary/Abstract: This study concentrates on selected contemporary British novels which rewrite (or “echo”) two biblical myths and the myth of the Bible. It sees biblical rewritings by Winterson, Burgess, Roberts, Crace, Alderman and Pullman as critical reflections on the contemporary crises in the understanding of British national identity, women’s relationship and British liberal tradition. These novels examine and criticise biblical myths/the myth of the Bible, and rework them in “weak”, undogmatic ways to articulate a more fluid and fragile idea of community. Such weak, undogmatic, self-conscious and critical revisions of biblical myths offered in the biblical rewritings are called in this book “the echoing myths”.

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