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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... central thesis on this point : every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited , transmitted and diversified by literature . Comparative my- thology is a fascinating subject , but it is quickly exhausted as a scholarly ...
... central thesis on this point : every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited , transmitted and diversified by literature . Comparative my- thology is a fascinating subject , but it is quickly exhausted as a scholarly ...
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... central question of that subject is quid est quid : what is whatness , or being ? Butler does not say that Hudibras knew the answer to the question , only that he knew that the question existed . The metaphysical structure in itself ...
... central question of that subject is quid est quid : what is whatness , or being ? Butler does not say that Hudibras knew the answer to the question , only that he knew that the question existed . The metaphysical structure in itself ...
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... central to the fact that human beings are social animals . Even the most exalted flights of Platonic philosophy rise from banquets . Hence , while this part of the axis mundi is , like its prede- cessor , a ladder of love , the emphasis ...
... central to the fact that human beings are social animals . Even the most exalted flights of Platonic philosophy rise from banquets . Hence , while this part of the axis mundi is , like its prede- cessor , a ladder of love , the emphasis ...
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Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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