Ulteriori informazioni
Zusatztext Maurice Hunt demonstrates that a great many diverse works of a religious and secular nature have represented face-to-face encounters between human beings and gods or between human beings and their fellow human beings in order to convey religious or ethical ideas. I came away from this book with a new recognition of an important motif in Western religious and cultural history. I also came away with a deeper understanding of the psychology of religious belief. It is an impressive achievement. Informationen zum Autor Maurice Hunt is Research Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. His teaching responsibilities include Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Renaissance Culture, Dostoyevsky’s Major Novels, and British Literature prior to 1800. He has published, among other books, Shakespeare’s Romance of the Word ; Shakespeare’s Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays ; Shakespeare’s Religious Allusiveness; and Shakespeare’s Speculative Art . Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung 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, Hermann 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface I. The Judeo-Christian HeritageChapter 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 HeritageChapter Four: Divine Faces and the Face to Face in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses : The Tale of Psyche and CupidChapter 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...
