'Stranger Within' points out some of the consequences for European culture of the presence of an ‘Old Testament’ within the Christian scriptural tradition. There are many works that give an account of
This volume explores a number of instances of unexpected but influential readings of the Bible in popular culture, literature, film, music and politics. The argument in all of them is that the effects
After an introduction to the concept of the narrative character as reader, this book offers a theoretical discussion based on the work of Bakhtin, Austin and Ricoeur. In-depth readings of the stories
