Three faces of Saul [[electronic resource] ] : an intertextual approach to biblical tragedy / / Sarah Nicholson

• Autore: Nicholson Sarah
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Sheffield Academic Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 222.4306; 222/.43092
• Soggetto topico: Tragic, The, in the Bible
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Face I: SAUL IN 1 SAMUEL; Face II: SAUL IN LAMARTINE'S SAÜL; Face III: HENCHARD IN HARDY'S THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 o
• Titolo autorizzato: Three faces of Saul
• ISBN: 1-281-84186-2; 9786611841867; 0-567-00943-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782385503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 339.