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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... Genesis , distinguished by the names they use for God . The first extends from Genesis 1 : 1 to Genesis 2 : 3 . Although it stands first , it is the later of the two accounts ; it uses the word Elohim for God , is probably post - exilic ...
... Genesis , distinguished by the names they use for God . The first extends from Genesis 1 : 1 to Genesis 2 : 3 . Although it stands first , it is the later of the two accounts ; it uses the word Elohim for God , is probably post - exilic ...
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... Genesis 1:27 and 5 : 1 with the J account , developed the figure of Lilith , Adam's first wife and the mother of ... Genesis . First we have the account of the progeny of Cain in Genesis 4 : the descendants of Cain established Fourth ...
... Genesis 1:27 and 5 : 1 with the J account , developed the figure of Lilith , Adam's first wife and the mother of ... Genesis . First we have the account of the progeny of Cain in Genesis 4 : the descendants of Cain established Fourth ...
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... Genesis 4 : the descendants of Cain established arts , notably music , metallurgy and other elements of urban life ... Genesis 10-11 . One thing that we seem to have in these Genesis passages is a Biblical parallel or contrast to the age ...
... Genesis 4 : the descendants of Cain established arts , notably music , metallurgy and other elements of urban life ... Genesis 10-11 . One thing that we seem to have in these Genesis passages is a Biblical parallel or contrast to the age ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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