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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... sense of human alienation and helplessness in nature , a sense that became largely outgrown as society got stronger . What feel- ings of impotence still survived were in part transferred to the gods , and events as late as , say , the ...
... sense of human alienation and helplessness in nature , a sense that became largely outgrown as society got stronger . What feel- ings of impotence still survived were in part transferred to the gods , and events as late as , say , the ...
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... sense " A is quite obviously not B , and nobody but a fool would imagine that Joseph really was , ' etc. Just as myth is counter - historical , asserting and denying its historical validity at the same time , metaphor is counter ...
... sense " A is quite obviously not B , and nobody but a fool would imagine that Joseph really was , ' etc. Just as myth is counter - historical , asserting and denying its historical validity at the same time , metaphor is counter ...
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... sense of humor , for example , is also part of a sense of reality - which will not line up with any subjective - objective antithesis . A still wider perspective opens out in Kant's Critique of Judgment , which links together the ex ...
... sense of humor , for example , is also part of a sense of reality - which will not line up with any subjective - objective antithesis . A still wider perspective opens out in Kant's Critique of Judgment , which links together the ex ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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