The David Myth in Western LiteratureRaymond-Jean Frontain, Jan Wojcik Purdue University Press, 1980 - 212 páginas This collection of eleven original essays each by a different scholar outlines the rich body of imaginative and devotional literature which has the biblical poet-warrior-king as its subject or primary focus, showing David to have as strong an imaginative appeal for Western writers as such better-known mythic heroes as Orpheus, Oedipus, Samson, and Ulysses. The introduction to the volume surveys the development of the David myth particularly in British and American literature. The essays represent a variety of critical approaches to the myth as literature, treating in detail such works as Shakespeare's Hamlet, Cowley's Davideis, Christopher Smart's A Song to David, and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and examining the complex uses made of David in the Midrash, Talmud, and Patristic writings; medieval sermons and Reformation devotional treatises; and American Puritan sermons. |
Conteúdo
Discriminations against Davids Tragedy | 12 |
Frail Grass and Firm Tree | 38 |
Two Views of the Evangelical David | 56 |
Wait upon the Lord | 70 |
David as Epic Hero | 86 |
Cowleys Davideis and the 96 | 96 |
David the Military Exemplum | 106 |
Blest Light | 120 |
Faulkners Absalom Absalom | 136 |
The Words of Their Roaring | 156 |
Saul and David in the Early Poetry | 170 |
Notes | 179 |
Contributors 209 | |
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