"Sei dessen eingedenk, du selbst hast mich geschaffen - ich sollte ja dein Adam sein!" (M. Shelley, Frankenstein): zur Rezeption von Gen 1-3 in ausgewählter Literatur
The Bible was and still is a fountain of visual art, music and literature. Looking at literature of different centuries it is obvious that literature is influenced by the Bible, especially concerning narrations about fundamental questions of human existence. Biblical texts are partly adopted and par...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft
[2018]
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| In: |
Die Bibel in der Kunst
Year: 2018, Volume: 2, Pages: 1-21 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Genesis 1-3
/ Reception
/ Novel
/ Literature
/ Shelley, Mary 1797-1851, Frankenstein
/ Ewers, Hanns Heinz 1871-1943
/ Schulze, Ingo 1962-, Adam und Evelyn
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | The Bible was and still is a fountain of visual art, music and literature. Looking at literature of different centuries it is obvious that literature is influenced by the Bible, especially concerning narrations about fundamental questions of human existence. Biblical texts are partly adopted and partly annotated, these texts have an influence on cultural discourses as well as on the Bible itself. For example Mary Shelley with her novel Frankenstein, Patrick Süskind with his novel Das Parfum and Ingo Schulze with Adam und Evelyn took into account biblical subjects and motives, especially to be exact the creation myths. All authors refer in their books to the creation myth in different ways: Thus Schulze underlies his novel, which is set up in the German Democratic Republic, with the creation myths in a cryptical way and in the case of recognizing it, a bundle of associations and senses are occurring, going far beyond the story of leaving the country. By contrast Patrick Süskind uses several biblical motives and phrases, in part modified in a cynical way, and he deconstructs and comments in that way the original creation myth. In all cases a mutual relationship is created between the novels and the biblical narration so that by the reception of the biblical themes and motives in current discourses the biblical text and its interpretation is transformed in a new way. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Die Bibel in der Kunst
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