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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Page xiii
... principles that literature derives from myth , the principles that give literature its communicating power across the ... principle of the identity of mythology and literature means devoting a good deal of attention to the con- nections ...
... principles that literature derives from myth , the principles that give literature its communicating power across the ... principle of the identity of mythology and literature means devoting a good deal of attention to the con- nections ...
Page xxii
... principle underlying the second part is an in- ference from the principle of coherence as a critical hypothesis . The poetic imagination_constructs a cosmos of its own , a cosmos to be studied not simply as a map but as a world of ...
... principle underlying the second part is an in- ference from the principle of coherence as a critical hypothesis . The poetic imagination_constructs a cosmos of its own , a cosmos to be studied not simply as a map but as a world of ...
Page 224
... principle of unity or individuality , and the Bride the principle of community . The Old Testament type is Solomon's love for the Shulamite , at- tached to a historical Solomon involved with a thousand and one women - seven hundred ...
... principle of unity or individuality , and the Bride the principle of community . The Old Testament type is Solomon's love for the Shulamite , at- tached to a historical Solomon involved with a thousand and one women - seven hundred ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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