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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... look- ing into . In any case the word comes closer than anything we have stumbled over so far to indicate the quality of the poet's authority , and to indicate also the link between secular and sacred literature that is one of our main ...
... look- ing into . In any case the word comes closer than anything we have stumbled over so far to indicate the quality of the poet's authority , and to indicate also the link between secular and sacred literature that is one of our main ...
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... look at again . A variant of the same myth may lurk in the back- ground of the verse : " Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin ; for his seed remaineth in him " ( 1 John 3 : 9 ; AV : modern translations try to make it mean ...
... look at again . A variant of the same myth may lurk in the back- ground of the verse : " Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin ; for his seed remaineth in him " ( 1 John 3 : 9 ; AV : modern translations try to make it mean ...
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... look into some of these indecently naked formal systems that won't quite do : the cosmologies , for example , constructed out of the metaphors that lift us up or bring us down , that oppose one hand to the other , look in or out , go ...
... look into some of these indecently naked formal systems that won't quite do : the cosmologies , for example , constructed out of the metaphors that lift us up or bring us down , that oppose one hand to the other , look in or out , go ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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