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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... identity with , which has several dimensions . A metaphor of the " A is B " type expresses an identity with that is not found in ordinary experience . We do , however , experience a form of identity - with in time , as when I feel that ...
... identity with , which has several dimensions . A metaphor of the " A is B " type expresses an identity with that is not found in ordinary experience . We do , however , experience a form of identity - with in time , as when I feel that ...
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... identity and difference , but this time he knows what it is . On the top level of experi- ence , identity is love and difference is beauty . In the ecstatic state there is a sense of presence , a sense uniting ourselves with something ...
... identity and difference , but this time he knows what it is . On the top level of experi- ence , identity is love and difference is beauty . In the ecstatic state there is a sense of presence , a sense uniting ourselves with something ...
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... identity , in which , as we noted , we call our- selves the same person at seventy that we were at seven , despite all the obvious changes . The persistence of identity is thus the persistence of a hi- erarchy of authority , and all ...
... identity , in which , as we noted , we call our- selves the same person at seventy that we were at seven , despite all the obvious changes . The persistence of identity is thus the persistence of a hi- erarchy of authority , and all ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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