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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... earth appear , the habitations of all living things . Then we have a sequence of created beings , trees , birds and fish , land animals , then man as the lord of creation . On the seventh day we get a glimpse of God's presence at the ...
... earth appear , the habitations of all living things . Then we have a sequence of created beings , trees , birds and fish , land animals , then man as the lord of creation . On the seventh day we get a glimpse of God's presence at the ...
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... earth by way of the planets . Dante and Milton are following the religious tradition that starts from Jacob's ladder , where there can be no connection between heaven and earth except through divine will . Mystics also seem to have a ...
... earth by way of the planets . Dante and Milton are following the religious tradition that starts from Jacob's ladder , where there can be no connection between heaven and earth except through divine will . Mystics also seem to have a ...
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... earth that sustains them , has helped to give us some notion of how skewed many aspects of our traditional ideology is on this point . But even in the Bible the bride - garden metaphor works in the opposite direction of as- sociating ...
... earth that sustains them , has helped to give us some notion of how skewed many aspects of our traditional ideology is on this point . But even in the Bible the bride - garden metaphor works in the opposite direction of as- sociating ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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