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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... mythological basis of it comes out very clearly , but in a pathological form . Examples are the " Nordic " racist myth of Nazism , the myth of a spontaneously creative and ideologically obedient peasantry in gang - of - four China , and ...
... mythological basis of it comes out very clearly , but in a pathological form . Examples are the " Nordic " racist myth of Nazism , the myth of a spontaneously creative and ideologically obedient peasantry in gang - of - four China , and ...
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... myth , past or future . The Communist Mani- festo does this : if we use , it says , the historical process to de- liver humanity from the class struggles of history , we shall also restore some of the pre - bourgeois personal ...
... myth , past or future . The Communist Mani- festo does this : if we use , it says , the historical process to de- liver humanity from the class struggles of history , we shall also restore some of the pre - bourgeois personal ...
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... myth to live by , " a myth which is also a model for continuous action , and which is the distinctively kerygmatic feature . The imaginative in itself cannot provide a " myth to live by , " but its freedom is the essential basis of all ...
... myth to live by , " a myth which is also a model for continuous action , and which is the distinctively kerygmatic feature . The imaginative in itself cannot provide a " myth to live by , " but its freedom is the essential basis of all ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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