Martha and Mary Re-Imagined: A.S. Byatt and Others

The traditional interpretation of the story of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42) represents the sisters as embodying respectively the active life and the contemplative life and sees the narrative as establishing the superiority of the contemplative life. In A. S. Byatt’s A Whistling Woman two major ch...

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Published in:Christianity & literature
Main Author: Sturrock, June (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2016]
In: Christianity & literature
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HC New Testament
KBF British Isles
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Meister Eckhart
B Religious Literature History & criticism
B Martha and Mary
B BYATT, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-
B SINGLE mothers
B WHISTLING Woman, A (Book)
B Velázquez
B Conduct of life
B Teresa of Avila
B A. S. Byatt
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