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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... mythical and metaphorical structure : mythical in the story it tells of the re- demption of man from between the beginning and the end of time ; metaphorical in the way that its imagery is juxtaposed to form an " apocalyptic " picture ...
... mythical and metaphorical structure : mythical in the story it tells of the re- demption of man from between the beginning and the end of time ; metaphorical in the way that its imagery is juxtaposed to form an " apocalyptic " picture ...
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... mythical as the Old , is a type of its own spiritual understanding ; the mythical elements in both testaments are closely related to mythical analogues all over the world . What follows is a series of essays on comparative mythol- ogy ...
... mythical as the Old , is a type of its own spiritual understanding ; the mythical elements in both testaments are closely related to mythical analogues all over the world . What follows is a series of essays on comparative mythol- ogy ...
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... mythical and imaginative context . He realized that the old mythical universe , in its ideological form as a rationalizing of traditional authority , was dead , and that it was time for a new emphasis in mythology that would accommodate ...
... mythical and imaginative context . He realized that the old mythical universe , in its ideological form as a rationalizing of traditional authority , was dead , and that it was time for a new emphasis in mythology that would accommodate ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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