Romancing the crucifixion in biblical rewritings by Phillip Pullman and Colm Tóibín

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dc.contributor.authorRychter, Ewa
dc.contributor.organizationPaństwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Wałbrzychuen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-11T09:33:33Z
dc.date.available2021-01-11T09:33:33Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on how the romance mode is used to re-narrativize the trauma of Jesus’s crucifixion in two contemporary biblical rewritings: Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010) and Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary (2012). Reflecting on the process of the composition of the Bible, these novels resort to romance in order to invite a critical reflection on different narrativizations of the traumatic event, dependent as they are on both conservative and more subversive effects of romance. As some characters rely on the strategies of traditional spiritual romance in order to alleviate their pain, others cynically resort to a dualistic vision to establish and consolidate power, and still others make use of the excess and disarticulation of romance to do justice to the absolute horror of the event, the novels draw attention both to the comforting and subversive function of Christian scripture. Adding a metafictional dimension to the narrative of crucifixion, the novels expose the way in which religious scriptures can become ideological instruments, and signal the potentially dangerous effects of the renewed significance of religion today.en
dc.identifier.citationRychter, Ewa. “Romancing the crucifixion in biblical rewritings by Phillip Pullman and Colm Tóibín”, Ars Aeterna, 10:1 (2018). 34-49. DOI: 10.1515/aa-2018-0004.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/aa-2018-0004.
dc.identifier.issn2450-8497
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/19362
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSciendoen
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/*
dc.subjectPhilip Pullmanen
dc.subjectColm Tóibínen
dc.subjectBibleen
dc.subjecttraumaen
dc.subjectromanceen
dc.subjectcrucifixionen
dc.subjectcontemporary British fictionen
dc.titleRomancing the crucifixion in biblical rewritings by Phillip Pullman and Colm Tóibínen
dc.typearticleen
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