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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... human alienation and helplessness in nature , a sense that became largely outgrown as society got stronger . What ... human and the non - human , with nothing that is personal in it outside the human . The same is true of the pre- vious ...
... human alienation and helplessness in nature , a sense that became largely outgrown as society got stronger . What ... human and the non - human , with nothing that is personal in it outside the human . The same is true of the pre- vious ...
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... human body in whom the totality and unity of human beings are the same thing . Al- bion's fall was the same thing as the appearance of the Genesis creation as we now see it , and his redemption is the work of Los , a blacksmith god ...
... human body in whom the totality and unity of human beings are the same thing . Al- bion's fall was the same thing as the appearance of the Genesis creation as we now see it , and his redemption is the work of Los , a blacksmith god ...
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... humanity , food , sex , possessions and freedom of movement , are elements in human life that we share with an- imals . It is the secondary concerns that are distinctly human , so if the twentieth century is an age in which primary ...
... humanity , food , sex , possessions and freedom of movement , are elements in human life that we share with an- imals . It is the secondary concerns that are distinctly human , so if the twentieth century is an age in which primary ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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