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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... poetic is playful , and therefore should be taken in a different spirit from discursive verbal structures ; the poetic is imaginative , and is therefore not a competitor in the verbal race to truth and reality . The poet's ideal is to ...
... poetic is playful , and therefore should be taken in a different spirit from discursive verbal structures ; the poetic is imaginative , and is therefore not a competitor in the verbal race to truth and reality . The poet's ideal is to ...
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... poetic vision . So the question , not only of the reality of a poetic vision , but of the distinctive authority that proclaims it , can hardly be dismissed as unimportant . This is especially true when the situation has extended beyond ...
... poetic vision . So the question , not only of the reality of a poetic vision , but of the distinctive authority that proclaims it , can hardly be dismissed as unimportant . This is especially true when the situation has extended beyond ...
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... Poetics ( Aristotle ) , 114-15 Poetry , 35-36 , 50 , 54 , 64-76 , 79 , 173 , 250 imitative harmony in , 65 language of , 73 " magical " line in , 65-66 , 76 metaphor in , see Metaphor poetic mode , see Imaginative or poetic mode poetic ...
... Poetics ( Aristotle ) , 114-15 Poetry , 35-36 , 50 , 54 , 64-76 , 79 , 173 , 250 imitative harmony in , 65 language of , 73 " magical " line in , 65-66 , 76 metaphor in , see Metaphor poetic mode , see Imaginative or poetic mode poetic ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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