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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... language in which they were written . The Bible's im- mense prestige as the source of the major religions of the Western world needs no further emphasizing . But , like the Emperor of Japan in the Shogunate period , its pre - eminence ...
... language in which they were written . The Bible's im- mense prestige as the source of the major religions of the Western world needs no further emphasizing . But , like the Emperor of Japan in the Shogunate period , its pre - eminence ...
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... language that expresses the awareness of language . So far as this means ordinary conscious awareness , the approach of criticism to literature includes a certain amount of a reduction of poetry to expository prose- in itself a somewhat ...
... language that expresses the awareness of language . So far as this means ordinary conscious awareness , the approach of criticism to literature includes a certain amount of a reduction of poetry to expository prose- in itself a somewhat ...
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... language and the modes of language . We have looked at the traditional view ( or our ver- sion of it ) that the three “ serious " modes of language relate to the perceptual , the conceptual and the ideological aspects of verbal ...
... language and the modes of language . We have looked at the traditional view ( or our ver- sion of it ) that the three “ serious " modes of language relate to the perceptual , the conceptual and the ideological aspects of verbal ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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