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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... criticism " unconnected with other types of criticism . But in that book there was a broader con- ception closer to what the word theoria implies , a conception originally ( 1957 ) directed against the assumption that criticism must be ...
... criticism " unconnected with other types of criticism . But in that book there was a broader con- ception closer to what the word theoria implies , a conception originally ( 1957 ) directed against the assumption that criticism must be ...
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... criticism . Many critics today are still unwilling or unable to get past the ideo- logical stage in dealing with literature , because they are less interested in literature than in the relation of literature to some primary ideological ...
... criticism . Many critics today are still unwilling or unable to get past the ideo- logical stage in dealing with literature , because they are less interested in literature than in the relation of literature to some primary ideological ...
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... criticism is the same there as elsewhere , even if criticism is not built into the structure of literature as it is into the structure of science or philosophy . Such criticism marks out the direction of ad- vance in consciousness , and ...
... criticism is the same there as elsewhere , even if criticism is not built into the structure of literature as it is into the structure of science or philosophy . Such criticism marks out the direction of ad- vance in consciousness , and ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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