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001 2015013067
003 DLC
005 20150911163702.0
008 150512s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015013067
020 $a9781501311024 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae------$ae-uk---
050 00 $aPN3352.G64$bH86 2015
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084 $aLIT000000$aLIT006000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHunt, Maurice,$d1942-
245 14 $aThe divine face in four writers :$bShakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. Lewis /$cMaurice Hunt.
263 $a1511
264 1 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury Academic,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"An important contribution to studies in literature and religion, The Divine Face in Four Writers traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face, and the centrality of facial expressions in characterization, in the works of William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Herman Hesse, and C.S. Lewis. Maurice Hunt explores both the human yearning to see the divine face from post-Apostolic time to the 20th century, as reflected in religion, myth, and literature by writers such as Augustine, Shakespeare, Hardy and Dostoyevsky, as well as the significance of the hidden divine face in writings by Spenser, Milton, Hesse, and Lewis. A final coda briefly detailing Emmanuel Levinas's system of ethics, based on the human face and its encounters with other faces, allows Hunt to focus on specific moments in the writings of the four major writers discussed that have particular ethical value"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A comparative study that explores the influence of Christian and Classical ideas about the divine face in the writing of four major writers in Western literature"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- 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 -- Works Cited.
650 0 $aFace of God in literature.
650 0 $aEuropean fiction$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aShakespeare, William,$d1564-1616$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aDostoyevsky, Fyodor,$d1821-1881$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aHesse, Hermann,$d1877-1962$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aLewis, C. S.$q(Clive Staples),$d1898-1963$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/024/9781501311024/image/lgcover.9781501311024.jpg