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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Page 164
... cycle of empires consolidated into the image of the wheel of fortune , which became the central image of tragedy in me- dieval and Renaissance times . The twentieth - century poets just referred to are of course aware of the same ...
... cycle of empires consolidated into the image of the wheel of fortune , which became the central image of tragedy in me- dieval and Renaissance times . The twentieth - century poets just referred to are of course aware of the same ...
Page 254
... cycle has provided a great many mythical analogies to human life . We have cycles in history , of empires rising , declining and being succeeded by new em- pires ; we have cycles of authoritarian regimes followed by rev- olutions ...
... cycle has provided a great many mythical analogies to human life . We have cycles in history , of empires rising , declining and being succeeded by new em- pires ; we have cycles of authoritarian regimes followed by rev- olutions ...
Page 260
... cycle of time , though always with some element that evades the pure cycle . Another part of the demonic par- ody , the opposite of the fertility god whom we eat and drink , is the demon who eats and drinks us , the figure of death who ...
... cycle of time , though always with some element that evades the pure cycle . Another part of the demonic par- ody , the opposite of the fertility god whom we eat and drink , is the demon who eats and drinks us , the figure of death who ...
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Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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