The Divine Face in Four Writers: Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. Lewis

by Maurice Hunt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501311026
• ISBN13: 9781501311024
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"