The divine face in four writers : Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. Lewis /

An important contribution to studies in literature and religion, The Divine Face in Four Writers traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face, and the centrality of facial expressions in characterization, in the works of William Shakespeare, F...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hunt, Maurice, 1942-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Subjects:	Face of God in literature. European fiction > History and criticism. English drama > History and criticism. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, > 1821-1881 > Criticism and interpretation. Hesse, Hermann, > 1877-1962 > Criticism and interpretation. Lewis, C. S. > (Clive Staples), > 1898-1963 > Criticism and interpretation. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.

Table of Contents:

Preface I. The Judeo-Christian Heritage
Chapter One: The Divine Face and the Face to Face in The Bible
Inter-Chapter: St. Augustine's Incarnate Face of Christ
Chapter Two: Christ-Like and Compassionate Faces in Shakespeare's Richard II, King Lear, The Tempest, and Julius Caesar
Inter-Chapter: The Modern Face in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native
Chapter Three: Christ's Face and its Adversaries in Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. The Pagan Heritage
Chapter Four: Divine Faces and the Face to Face in Apuleius's Metamorphoses: The Tale of Psyche and Cupid
Chapter Five: Syncretic Faces in Hermann Hesse's Demian
Chapter Six: Pagan and Christian Faces in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces
Coda: Emmanuel Levinas's Ethics of the Face
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