TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lusin, Caroline
A2  - Fehrle, Johannes
A2  - Schmitt, Mark
T1  - A one-way ticket to paradise? : Adapting the bible in Venedikt Erofeev’s 'Moskva-Petushki' (1973), Stephen Mulrine's 'Moscow Stations' (1993), and A.L. Kennedy's 'Paradise' (2004)
T2  - Komparatistik online : komparatistische Internet-Zeitschrift / Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
N2  - In the early 21st century, scientists once more declared God a delusion and announced the end of faith, boosting the current critique of religious belief known as 'New Atheism'. Yet the contemporary British and Irish novel engage with religion in various forms, and religion has indeed "returned", Andrew Tate argues, "to the study of literature". The Bible in particular proves a rich source for novelists as different as Colm Tóibín, Zadie Smith, and Philip Pullman among others. Where Colm Tóibín's 'The Testament of Mary' (2012) offers a fictional memoir by the mother of God, depicting the Virgin Mary as "a powerful, unsparing figure" ('Guardian'), Zadie Smith's 'NW' (2012) describes the lives of its two female protagonists against the backdrop of the stories of Mary and Elizabeth in the Gospel of Luke. And Philip Pullman's bestselling trilogy 'His Dark Materials' (1995- 2000) is a re-writing of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' (1667) that "only really makes sense" according to Tate "if the reader has a detailed knowledge of the biblical scriptures against which it writes". Despite being written from a very critical, ironic or atheist stance, all these novels rely on the Bible as an intertext in crucial ways. The Bible, in other words, is once more living up to its ancient reputation as "the Book of Books", "the Urtext of Western literature".
KW  - Adaption <Literatur>
KW  - Bibel
KW  - Religion
KW  - Erofeev, Viktor
KW  - Moskva-Petuški
KW  - Mulrine, Stephen
KW  - Moscow stations
KW  - Kennedy, A. L.
KW  - Paradise
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/49116
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-491168
SN  - 1864-8533
VL  - 2018
IS  - [Heft 1 =] Adaptation as cultural translation
SP  - 8
EP  - 24
PB  - Justus-Liebig-Univ.
CY  - Gießen
ER  -