Three Faces of Saul - An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy

Informationen zum Autor Sarah L Nicholson is Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies! University of Glasgow. Zusammenfassung A fascinating intertextual study of the classic biblical tragedy of Saul! the first king of Israel! as first narrated in biblical narrative and later reworked in Lamartine's drama Saul: Tragédie and Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plot and characterization are each explored in detail in this study! and in each of the narrations the hero's tragic fate emerges both as the result of a character flaw and also as a consequence of the ambivalent role of the deity! showing a double theme underlying not only the biblical vision but also its two very different retellings nearer to our own times.

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• Authors: Sarah Nicholson
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9781841272481
• ISBN: 978-1-84127-248-1
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Journal for the Study of the O; Journal for the Study of the O; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Hebrew, Bible readings, selections and meditations, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights