The Divine Face in Four Writers
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3396-5 (ISBN)
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.
Maurice Hunt is Research Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of ten books, including Shakespeare’s Romance of the Word (1990), Shakespeare’s Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays (1995), Shakespeare’s Religious Allusiveness (2004), and Shakespeare’s Speculative Art (2011).
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
II. 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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.07.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 6 b/w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 259 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-3396-8 / 1501333968 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-3396-5 / 9781501333965 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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