Three Faces of Saul

An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy

By: Sarah Nicholson

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Hardcover | 1 May 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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: Tragedie 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 own times.

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Biblical Studies & Exegesis Bible Readings, Selections & Meditations Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Literary Studies of Plays & Playwrights

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Abbreviations	p. 10
Introduction	p. 11
Saul in 1 Samuel
To Every Bad There is a Worse: the Mechanics of Biblical Tragedy	p. 36
Overview of the Tragic Vision	p. 40
The Father-Son Collision	p. 44
Tragic Mechanics	p. 53
An Unsympathetic First Cause: Divine Ambivalence in Biblical Tragedy	p. 77
Overview of Divine Ambivalence	p. 77
Divine Agency	p. 83
Summary	p. 106
The Problem of Evil	p. 107
Saul in Lamartine's Saul
If All Were Only Vanity: Striving After the Biblical Plot	p. 114
Plot	p. 118
Characterization	p. 130
Once Victim, Always Victim: Blind Insanity and Conflict with the Divine	p. 148
Thematic Schemes and Stylistic Devices	p. 149
The Role of God	p. 162
Henchard in Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
That No Man Remember Me: The Character of Hardy's Tragic Vision	p. 180
The Present State of Scholarship	p. 181
Voltaire	p. 188
Character	p. 194
The Solid, Inexorable Hand of Indifference: Ambivalence and Absence	p. 217
Social History	p. 218
Fate and Chance	p. 230
Conclusion	p. 251
Summary of Main Findings	p. 257
Methodological Considerations	p. 258
Limitations of this Approach and Areas for Further Research	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 265
Index of References	p. 271
Index of Authors	p. 275
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