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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... heaven . This heaven- ward stair seems to have been an important element in the symbolism of Mithraism , the Persian sun - cult that was a rival of early Christianity . In Mithraism there were seven degrees of ascent after death ...
... heaven . This heaven- ward stair seems to have been an important element in the symbolism of Mithraism , the Persian sun - cult that was a rival of early Christianity . In Mithraism there were seven degrees of ascent after death ...
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... heaven by force or fraud . A reference to the Tower of Babel precedes this description , and indicates its archetype . There follows a vision of stairs descending from heaven to earth , which , Milton tells us , were " such as whereon ...
... heaven by force or fraud . A reference to the Tower of Babel precedes this description , and indicates its archetype . There follows a vision of stairs descending from heaven to earth , which , Milton tells us , were " such as whereon ...
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... Heaven , in the sense of the place of the presence of God , usually symbolized by the physical heaven . or sky . The earthly paradise , the natural and original home of man , represented in the Biblical story by the Garden of Eden ...
... Heaven , in the sense of the place of the presence of God , usually symbolized by the physical heaven . or sky . The earthly paradise , the natural and original home of man , represented in the Biblical story by the Garden of Eden ...
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Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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