Uses and abuses of Moses: literary representations since the Enlightenment. - ZIOLKOWSKI, THEODORE
Literary Representations since the Enlightenment
KORTE INHOUD
"In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski examines an impressive array of dramas, poems, operas, novels, and films to show the many ways in which the charismatic figure of Moses has been exploited--the "uses and abuses" of the title--to serve a variety of ideological and cultural purposes. Ziolkowski's wide-ranging and in-depth study compares and analyzes the attempts by nearly one hundred writers to fill in the gaps in the biblical account of Moses' life and to explain his motivation as a leader, lawgiver, and prophet. As Ziolkowski richly demonstrates, Moses' image has been affected by historical factors such as the Egyptomania of the 1820s, the revolutionary movements of the mid-nineteenth century, the early move toward black liberation in the Un...
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2016Uitgever: University of Notre Dame Press364 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 026804502XISBN-13: 9780268045029Koop dit boek tweedehands
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352 p. Hardcover Notre Dame [IN], University of Notre Dame Press 2016 [Auteur: ZIOLKOWSKI, THEODORE] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: Uses and abuses of Moses: literary representations since the Enlightenment.]
