| Description |
1 online resource (276 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 339
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 339.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-270)-and indexes. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; The Story of Saul as History and as Literature; Literary Theory and Methodology; The Intertextual Perspective; The Story of Saul as Tragedy; Technical Matters; Face I: SAUL IN 1 SAMUEL; Chapter 1 TO EVERY BAD THERE IS A WORSE: THE MECHANICS OF BIBLICAL TRAGEDY; Introduction; Overview of the Tragic Vision; The Father-Son Collision; Tragic Mechanics; Conclusions; Chapter 2 AN UNSYMPATHETIC FIRST CAUSE: DIVINE AMBIVALENCE IN BIBLICAL TRAGEDY; Introduction; Overview of Divine Ambivalence; Divine Agency; Summary; The Problem of Evil. |
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ConclusionsFace II: SAUL IN LAMARTINE''S SAÜL; Chapter 3 IF ALL WERE ONLY VANITY: STRIVING AFTER THE BIBLICAL PLOT; Introduction; Plot; Characterization; Conclusions; Chapter 4 ONCE VICTIM, ALWAYS VICTIM: BLIND INSANITY AND CONFLICT WITH THE DIVINE; Introduction; Thematic Schemes and Stylistic Devices; The Role of God; Conclusions; Face III: HENCHARD IN HARDY''S THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE; Chapter 5 THAT NO MAN REMEMBER ME: THE CHARACTER OF HARDY''S TRAGIC VISION; Introduction; The Present State of Scholarship; Voltaire; Character; Conclusions. |
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Chapter 6 THE SOLID, INEXORABLE HAND OF INDIFFERENCE: AMBIVALENCE AND ABSENCEIntroduction; Social History; Fate and Chance; Conclusions; Chapter 7 CONCLUSION; Summary of Main Findings; Methodological Considerations; Limitations of this Approach and Areas for Further Research; Summary Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Saul, King of Israel.
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Saul, King of Israel. |
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Bible. Samuel, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Samuel, 1st. |
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Saul, King of Israel. |
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. |
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Gide, André, 1869-1951. |
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Mayor of Casterbridge. |
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Gide, André, 1869-1951. Saül. |
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Bible. A.T. Samuel -- Critique, interprétation, etc. |
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Bible. Samuel, 1st. |
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Tragic, The, in the Bible.
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Tragic, The, in the Bible. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nicholson, Sarah. Three faces of Saul. London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2002 1841272485 9781841272481 (DLC) 2002391555 (OCoLC)49594299 |
| ISBN |
9780567009432 (electronic book) |
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0567009432 (electronic book) |
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1841272485 |
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9781841272481 |
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