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The Divine Face in Four Writers Dr. Maurice Hunt (Baylor University, USA)

The Divine Face in Four Writers By Dr. Maurice Hunt (Baylor University, USA)

The Divine Face in Four Writers by Dr. Maurice Hunt (Baylor University, USA)

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The Divine Face in Four Writers: Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. Lewis by Dr. Maurice Hunt (Baylor University, USA)

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 Levinass 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.

The Divine Face in Four Writers Reviews

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. * James Hirsh, Professor of English, Georgia State University, USA *

About Dr. Maurice Hunt (Baylor University, USA)

Maurice Hunt is Research Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of ten books, including Shakespeares Romance of the Word (1990), Shakespeares Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays (1995), Shakespeares Religious Allusiveness (2004), and Shakespeares Speculative Art (2011).

Table of Contents

Preface I. The Judeo-Christian Heritage Chapter One: The Divine Face and the Face to Face in The Bible Inter-Chapter: St. Augustines Incarnate Face of Christ Chapter Two: Christ-Like and Compassionate Faces in Shakespeares Richard II, King Lear, The Tempest, and Julius Caesar Inter-Chapter: The Modern Face in Thomas Hardys The Return of the Native Chapter Three: Christs Face and its Adversaries in Dostoyevskys The Idiot II. The Pagan Heritage Chapter Four: Divine Faces and the Face to Face in Apuleiuss Metamorphoses: The Tale of Psyche and Cupid Chapter Five: Syncretic Faces in Hermann Hesses Demian Chapter Six: Pagan and Christian Faces in C. S. Lewiss Till We Have Faces Coda: Emmanuel Levinass Ethics of the Face Works Cited

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9781501311024
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The Divine Face in Four Writers: Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. Lewis by Dr. Maurice Hunt (Baylor University, USA)
Dr. Maurice Hunt (Baylor University, USA)
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2015-12-17
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