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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... century heralds a world in which practically every decade has thrown up some variety of anti - establishment attitude associated with the arts . These include the Bohemians of the late nineteenth century and the Dadaists of the time of ...
... century heralds a world in which practically every decade has thrown up some variety of anti - establishment attitude associated with the arts . These include the Bohemians of the late nineteenth century and the Dadaists of the time of ...
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... century was a feeling for a more au- tonomous aspect of natura naturans , which had been subordi- nated and distrusted for so many centuries . The sky metaphors , we saw , became mechanical , and organic metaphors superseded them . We ...
... century was a feeling for a more au- tonomous aspect of natura naturans , which had been subordi- nated and distrusted for so many centuries . The sky metaphors , we saw , became mechanical , and organic metaphors superseded them . We ...
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... century man goes back a century or more in time , while his double moves from the earlier period into the hero's twentieth - century setting which is the double's future . In " The Jolly Corner " an American who has spent his life in ...
... century man goes back a century or more in time , while his double moves from the earlier period into the hero's twentieth - century setting which is the double's future . In " The Jolly Corner " an American who has spent his life in ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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