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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Page 146
... Paradise Lost : " With other notes than to th'Orphean lyre . " A different and subtler aspect of the same kind of tension appears in the first canto of the Paradiso , where Dante uses the Classical images of Marsyas , who was flayed ...
... Paradise Lost : " With other notes than to th'Orphean lyre . " A different and subtler aspect of the same kind of tension appears in the first canto of the Paradiso , where Dante uses the Classical images of Marsyas , who was flayed ...
Page 160
... Paradise Lost we encounter the " paradise of fools " on the smooth surface of the primum mobile , or cir- cumference of the universe , where those arrive who have tried to take the kingdom of heaven by force or fraud . A reference to ...
... Paradise Lost we encounter the " paradise of fools " on the smooth surface of the primum mobile , or cir- cumference of the universe , where those arrive who have tried to take the kingdom of heaven by force or fraud . A reference to ...
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... paradise explain to a visitor : But we are naked not as you suppose , for we are covered with a covering of glory ; and we do not show each other the private parts of our bodies . But we are covered with a stole of glory similar to that ...
... paradise explain to a visitor : But we are naked not as you suppose , for we are covered with a covering of glory ; and we do not show each other the private parts of our bodies . But we are covered with a stole of glory similar to that ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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