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  1. The divine face in four writers
    Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C.S. Lewis
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, Bloomsbury, New York

    "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... more

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
    03.b.5902
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2015 A 13938
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    "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"-- "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"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781501311024; 1501311026
    Subjects: Face of God in literature; European fiction; English drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881; Hesse, Hermann 1877-1962; Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963
    Scope: xii, 175 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-169) and index