Words with Power: Being a Second Study of "the Bible and Literature"Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, with discussions of authors ranging from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Yeats and Eliot. Frye identifies four key elements found in the Bible-the mountain, the garden, the cave, and the furnace-and describes how they recur in later secular writings. Indices. |
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... Bible must be a literary response , and why , within the Bible itself , all the values connected with the term " truth " can be reached only by passing through myth and metaphor . This is a motif that has to be repeated in different ...
... Bible must be a literary response , and why , within the Bible itself , all the values connected with the term " truth " can be reached only by passing through myth and metaphor . This is a motif that has to be repeated in different ...
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... Bible was never intended to teach doc- trine , but only to prove it . It is true that the Bible cannot teach doctrine , but trying to prove doctrine by it turns the Bible . into something else . Yet nothing else is possible for theolo ...
... Bible was never intended to teach doc- trine , but only to prove it . It is true that the Bible cannot teach doctrine , but trying to prove doctrine by it turns the Bible . into something else . Yet nothing else is possible for theolo ...
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... Biblical texture . In short , a mode of language on the other side of the poetic . Of course another fallacy , of assuming that the literary Bible is the real or essential Bible , to which non - literary material , like the begats in ...
... Biblical texture . In short , a mode of language on the other side of the poetic . Of course another fallacy , of assuming that the literary Bible is the real or essential Bible , to which non - literary material , like the begats in ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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