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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... metaphors ( GC 7 ) , a metaphor being a statement of identity of the type " A is B , " where personality and natural object are said to be the same thing , although they remain two different things . At the headwaters of literary ...
... metaphors ( GC 7 ) , a metaphor being a statement of identity of the type " A is B , " where personality and natural object are said to be the same thing , although they remain two different things . At the headwaters of literary ...
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... metaphor is counter- logical . So what is the point of a figure of speech that at least includes the opposite of anything that a reader or listener would think of as the truth ? 99 Metaphor , where so often something related to human ...
... metaphor is counter- logical . So what is the point of a figure of speech that at least includes the opposite of anything that a reader or listener would think of as the truth ? 99 Metaphor , where so often something related to human ...
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... 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 I am identical with all the personalities I have ...
... 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 I am identical with all the personalities I have ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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