Uses and Abuses of Moses: Literary Representations since the Enlightenment

by TheodoreZiolkowski (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2016

  $96.62

  Surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, 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 to serve a variety of ideological and cultural purposes.