{"product_id":"biblical-women-in-contemporary-novels-in-english-from-margaret-atwood-to-jenny-diski-9789004390300","title":"Biblical Women in Contemporary Novels in English: From Margaret Atwood to Jenny Diski","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow are well-known female characters from the Bible represented in late 20th-century novels? Bertrand shows how biblical women in contemporary literature are given a voice that rests not only on words but also on silences. Exploring the many forms that silence can take, she presents an innovative typology that sheds light on this profoundly meaningful phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Abbreviations  Introduction   1Setting the Frame. Voices and Silences    Part 1: The Silenced Feminine?   2Ambivalent Responses to the Bible   1Listening to the Implicit Dimension of the Bible   2Challenging Women’s Silencing   2.1Dumb Silencing   2.2Garrulous Silencing   2.3Deaf Silencing   3So Many Forms of Silencing to Denounce   1The Demoted, Repressed Feminine: The Wild Girl   2Amputated Subjecthood:  The Handmaid’s Tale   3Boarding the Ark of the Refusées:  The Book of Mrs Noah   4Beware of the Big Bad Lies:  Sisters and Strangers   5The Voiceless Cipher in the Text:  The Red Tent   6Battling Against God:  Only Human   7Feminist Responses to Women’s Silencing    Part 2: Voices Draped in Silences  Section 1:Encountering the Other through Silences. Diamant’s the Red Tent and Roberts’s the Wild Girl   4Dinah’s Ode to the Plural Mother   1A Universe of Mothers and Goddesses   2The Bliss and Burden of Silence   2.1In the Image of the (Great) Mother(s)   2.2From Eloquent Silence to Silencing   2.3At One with the Mothers   5Mary Magdalene’s Quest for Identity and God   1Introduction into the Ineffable Divine   1.1A Voluptuous Dissolution of the Self   1.2Ineffable Beauty and Harmony   2Regaining Primeval Wholeness   2.1Sexuality as a Route to the Divine   2.2The Marriage between the Inner Man and the Inner Woman   2.3The Rehabilitation of the Female Divine Principle   2.4Celebrating Life and the Eloquent Silence of Intimacy   3The Harrowing of Hell and Resurrection   3.1Mary Magdalene’s First Trip to the Nether Realm   3.2On the Erroneous Belief in the Bodily Resurrection   3.3Mary Magdalene’s Second Harrowing Scene   4The Voice of Female Dissent   4.1Each of Us Is the Rock   4.2Sailing in and to Silence  Section 2:Blurred Voices and Spectral Silences. Roberts’s the Book of Mrs Noah and Diski’s Only Human   6Mrs Noah’s Journey to Creativity   1On the Polyphonic, Silent Use of Epigraphy   1.1Echoing Donne’s Erratic Progress of a Multiform Soul   1.2In the Image of … Donne’s Soul: Outshining Noah’s Ark   1.3Sharing a Playful, Ironic Distance towards Authority   1.4Tempering with Donne’s Voice   2A Great Web of Blurred Voices   2.1Voice Blurring Across Narrative Levels   2.2Blurring within the Main Narrative Level   2.3A Mixture of Chaos and Rhythm Celebrating Plurality   2.4Delivered from Confinement, Delivered through Confinement?   2.5A Heavy Weight to Bear?   2.6Conjugating “To Come”   3Climbing Down Deep Inside, to Spectral Silence   3.1Partying with the Quintessential Silenced   3.2Speaking with(out) the Lost Mother   7Sarai’s Story Game of Competing Voices and Rival Desires   1Voice Blurring in a War of the Wor(l)ds   1.1At the Start, There Is an End   1.2Unidentified Narrative Voice for a Silenced Heroine   1.3Blurred Rival Versions of the Beginning(s)   2Sarai’s Early Encounter with Spectral Silence   2.1Primeval Loss and the Beginning of Desire   2.2The Beginning of the End, and Disappointing New Starts   3Sarai-Abram-God, a Destructive Triangular Desire   3.1When the One Finds Her Own Voice, the Other Finds God’s   3.2Enter I Am That I Am, the Homewrecker: Sarai Nil, God One   3.3The Battle of Wor(l)ds: Sarai One, God One   3.4The Choice of Laughter: Sarai Two, God One  Section 3:Reticent Testimonies. Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale and Tennant’s Sisters and Strangers   8Offred’s Reticent Tale of Resistance   1An Introduction to Reticence   2Offred’s Polyphonic Testimony   2.1Dialoguing with the Narratee(s)   2.2Passing On Other Mutinous Female Voices   2.3Offred’s Chatty Discourse with the Maker   3Fighting for a Plurality of Identities and Meanings   3.1Remembering Her Former Selves   3.2Games of Words, Power and Desire with the Commander   3.3Offred as Secret Lover   9The Playfully Reticent Tale of Eve’s Journey   1An Introduction into Grandmother Dummer’s Reticence   2From the Passive Princess to the Demonic Lilith   3Subverting the Extremes: From Harlot to Madonna   4Female Lies and Truths: From Courtesan to Bluestocking    Part 3: Closing Silences Voicing Openness   10Passing on the Heroine’s Voice   1Mary Magdalene’s Distrust of Words   2Eve’s Ultimate Subversive Enactment of Female Stereotypes   3Sarai and the Ineffable Human Horror   4Dinah’s Life Beyond the Grave   5The Irreconcilability of Mrs Noah’s Aspirations?   6Offred’s Blurred Voice   11Conclusion   Works Cited   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210767884631,"sku":"9789004390300","price":118.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biblical-women-in-contemporary-novels-in-english-from-margaret-atwood-to-jenny-diski-9789004390300","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}