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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... Testament , to keep to that for the moment , is written in mythical and metaphorical language , why does it seem so hos- tile to everything else expressed in that language ? The Word in the New Testament , we said , is associated with ...
... Testament , to keep to that for the moment , is written in mythical and metaphorical language , why does it seem so hos- tile to everything else expressed in that language ? The Word in the New Testament , we said , is associated with ...
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... Testament as a set of " types " of which the New Tes- tament provides the " antitypes , " the types being the ... Testament is all type and the New Testament all antitype , or that there are no types except in the Old Testament and no ...
... Testament as a set of " types " of which the New Tes- tament provides the " antitypes , " the types being the ... Testament is all type and the New Testament all antitype , or that there are no types except in the Old Testament and no ...
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... Testament , 104 , 110-11 , 124 , 133 , 139 , 235 , 238 , 257 , 265-66 , 304 see also Bible ; individual parts of the New Testament Newton , Isaac , 37 Nietzsche , Friedrich Wilhelm , 54 , 115 , 132 , 174 , 242 , 255 , 278 , 308 Nile ...
... Testament , 104 , 110-11 , 124 , 133 , 139 , 235 , 238 , 257 , 265-66 , 304 see also Bible ; individual parts of the New Testament Newton , Isaac , 37 Nietzsche , Friedrich Wilhelm , 54 , 115 , 132 , 174 , 242 , 255 , 278 , 308 Nile ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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