San Antonio College Library

An examination of the religious and spiritual conflicts in modern drama, fiction, and poetry.

In a series of essays, Wood relates the work of a number of prominent authors to questions of religious and philosophical belief.

"In D.H. Lawrence and The Bible, Terry Wright establishes that Lawrence was familiar with the modernist critique of the Bible by higher critics and by anthropologists of religion. He also argues, however, that Lawrence's playful reworking of the Bible, like that of Nietzsche, anticipates postmodernism." "After considering the extraordinary range of Lawrence's reading and the intertexts between the Bible and Lawrence's own writing, Wright engages in...