Deliver Us from Evil: Essays on Symbolic Engagement in Early Drama.(Book review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Maley, Willy | Copyright information

Deliver Us from Evil: Essays on Symbolic Engagement in Early Drama. By CLIFFORD DAVIDSON. New York: AMS. 2004. xiii + 204 pp. $72.50. ISBN 0-404-64167-9.

Evil is back on the agenda, somewhere between the tabloids and tablets of stone. This timely book performs a useful tug at the sleeve of critics whose materialist analyses blind them to the centrality of faith and its foes. Relegated to a footnote in new historicist and cultural materialist accounts, belief in absolute ...

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