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The Bible and Literature The Basics

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The Bible and Literature: The Basics provides an interpretive framework for understanding the significance of biblical allusions in literatureeven for readers who have little prior knowledge of the Bible. In doing so, it surveys the Bibles influence on a broad range of English, American, and other Anglophone literatures from a variety of historical periods. It also:

• offers a "greatest hits" tour of the Bible
• focuses as much on 20^th- and 21^st-century literatures as on earlier periods
• addresses the Bibles relevance to contemporary issues in literary criticism such as poststructuralist, postcolonial, feminist, queer, and narrative theories
• includes discussion questions for each chapter and annotated suggestions for further reading

This book explains why readers need a basic knowledge of the Bible in order to understand and appreciate key aspects of Anglophone literary traditions.