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The David Myth in Western Literature. Ed. Raymond-Jean Frontain and Jan Wojcik. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1980. PN57.D38.D38.
Contents
  • Preface

  • Introduction: Transformations of the Myth of David

  • Discriminations against David's Tragedy in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature
    Jan Wojcik

  • Frail Grass and Firm Tree: David as a Model of Repentance in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
    Charles A. Huttar

  • Two Views of the Evangelical David: LefËvre d'Etaples and Theodore Beza
    Edward A. Gosselin

  • "Wait upon the Lord": David, Hamlet, and the Problem of Revenge
    Gene Edward Veith, Jr.

  • David as Epic Hero: Drayton's David and Goliah
    Anthony Allingham

  • Cowley's Davideis and the Exaltation of Friendship
    Ted-Larry Pebworth

  • David, the Military Exemplum
    Marie L. Ahearn

  • "Blest Light": Christopher Smart's Myth of David
    Thomas F. Dillingham

  • Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the David Story: A Speculative Contemplation
    Stephen M. Ross

  • The Words of Their Roaring: Roethke's Use of the Psalms of David
    M. L. Lewandowska

  • Saul and David in the Early Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
    Noam Flinker

  • Notes

  • Contributors

  • Index