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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... elements , hence conceptual writing con- centrates on the elements most closely related to co - ordina- tion . These are expressed in such terms as time , nature , substance , being , all of which are necessarily abstract , related ...
... elements , hence conceptual writing con- centrates on the elements most closely related to co - ordina- tion . These are expressed in such terms as time , nature , substance , being , all of which are necessarily abstract , related ...
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... elements in the mind that culminated in the work of Freud , the notion that primitive meant historically outmoded was put to rest once and for all . Freud showed that some of the major myths , in- cluding those of Oedipus and Narcissus ...
... elements in the mind that culminated in the work of Freud , the notion that primitive meant historically outmoded was put to rest once and for all . Freud showed that some of the major myths , in- cluding those of Oedipus and Narcissus ...
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... element needs to be studied functionally , as an essential part of what the Bible is , and how and why its literary ... elements in the Bible as something to be removed or transmuted into something else before the kerygma can stand out ...
... element needs to be studied functionally , as an essential part of what the Bible is , and how and why its literary ... elements in the Bible as something to be removed or transmuted into something else before the kerygma can stand out ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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