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Three faces of Saul : an intertextual approach to biblical tragedy /
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 explore...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Sheffield Academic Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;
339. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270)-and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567009432 0567009432 1281841862 9781281841865 9786611841867 6611841865 |