A hero ensnared in otherness? Literary images of Samson
The biblical text shows Samson’s otherness as a multilayered picture. The literary adaptations of this story in the 20th century reduce this complexity and portray Samson as a more coherent other transferring Samson into the cultural boundaries of their own times. Thereby, Samson’s story is a contin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mabuse-Verlag
2014
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Dr. med. Mabuse
Year: 2014, Pages: 33-51 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Woman (Motif)
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| Further subjects: | B
Servant of God
B Outsider B Israel Antiquity B Gender B Old Testament B Bible. Judge 13-16 B Samson Biblical character B Delilah B Stranger B Hero B Insanity B Judges B Man B God B Philistines |
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| Summary: | The biblical text shows Samson’s otherness as a multilayered picture. The literary adaptations of this story in the 20th century reduce this complexity and portray Samson as a more coherent other transferring Samson into the cultural boundaries of their own times. Thereby, Samson’s story is a continuous story of otherness. His portrait remains in between shame and honour, duty and emotion, patriotism and love and, subsequently, also between fool and hero. |
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| Contains: | In: Dr. med. Mabuse
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