The David Myth in Western Literature

Frontain, Raymond-Jean & Jan Wojcik, eds

ISBN 10: 0911198555 / ISBN 13: 9780911198553

Published by Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, IN, 1980

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Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage, other than spine which is faded by sun exposure. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Criticism; Religion & Theology. ISBN: 0911198555. ISBN/EAN: 9780911198553. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23495.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The David Myth in Western Literature
• Publisher: Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, IN
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0911198555
• ISBN 13: 9780911198553
• Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Raymond-Jean Frontain teaches spiritual literature at Victory Noll, Huntington, Indiana and is completing his Ph.D. in English at Purdue University.

Jan Wojcik, associate professor of English and comparative literature at Purdue, studied at Boston College and received his doctorate from Yale. He is author of Muted Consent: A Casebook in Modern Medical Ethics, Road to Emmaus: Reading Luke's Gospel, Arguments of Agriculture: A Casebook in Contemporary Agricultural Controversy, and David Myth in Western Literature.