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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... narrative to the sequence of events they describe . This coincidence is possible because both historical events and their narrative counterparts move in tem- poral order . There are also works of reference , designed not for consecutive ...
... narrative to the sequence of events they describe . This coincidence is possible because both historical events and their narrative counterparts move in tem- poral order . There are also works of reference , designed not for consecutive ...
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... narrative . The fact that there must be a last page and a final " cadence , " or falling away from the reader , infuses narrative from the beginning with the sense that the reader is above and the action of the text below . This sense ...
... narrative . The fact that there must be a last page and a final " cadence , " or falling away from the reader , infuses narrative from the beginning with the sense that the reader is above and the action of the text below . This sense ...
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... narrative to be read , and the continuity of narrative inhibits at first the personal appropriation of what one reads . What we read is , however tiresome we may find the phrase , " food for thought , " or imagination , and like other ...
... narrative to be read , and the continuity of narrative inhibits at first the personal appropriation of what one reads . What we read is , however tiresome we may find the phrase , " food for thought , " or imagination , and like other ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
Copyright | |
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Words With Power: Being a Second Study of 'The Bible and Literature' Northrop Frye Limited preview - 2008 |
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