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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... Song of Songs is a group of songs in a loose dialogue form with a chorus , celebrating a wedding , evidently of a rural youth and maiden , and intensely sexual in imagery . The imagery is of the expanding type al- ready mentioned ...
... Song of Songs is a group of songs in a loose dialogue form with a chorus , celebrating a wedding , evidently of a rural youth and maiden , and intensely sexual in imagery . The imagery is of the expanding type al- ready mentioned ...
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... Songs is oasis imagery ; for harvest imagery we should turn to the Book of Ruth , where so many of the major Biblical themes relating to women are brought into focus . In this story the ... Song of Songs . When Boaz 210 Words with Power.
... Songs is oasis imagery ; for harvest imagery we should turn to the Book of Ruth , where so many of the major Biblical themes relating to women are brought into focus . In this story the ... Song of Songs . When Boaz 210 Words with Power.
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... Song of Songs , and of course the Eden story itself . It may take a fairly attentive ear to catch the echoes of Luke 1:28 and Song of Songs 2 : 5 in the line " And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns , " but the echoes ...
... Song of Songs , and of course the Eden story itself . It may take a fairly attentive ear to catch the echoes of Luke 1:28 and Song of Songs 2 : 5 in the line " And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns , " but the echoes ...
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Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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