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 205
... sexual im- agery " means " or points away from sex to religious experi- ence , to a more directly erotic form where sexual experience is the central focus . The mystics are of particular interest here , because of the place of the Song ...
... sexual im- agery " means " or points away from sex to religious experi- ence , to a more directly erotic form where sexual experience is the central focus . The mystics are of particular interest here , because of the place of the Song ...
Page 208
... sexual union is often referred to as " death " in the poetry of this period , and a similar death in Shakespeare's " Phoenix and the Turtle " occurs according to the voice of Reason , though the reader may suspect that some- thing other ...
... sexual union is often referred to as " death " in the poetry of this period , and a similar death in Shakespeare's " Phoenix and the Turtle " occurs according to the voice of Reason , though the reader may suspect that some- thing other ...
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... sexual one , and from the point of view of that concern the sexual experience itself is what is really important , the begetting of children being an incidental by- product . That leaves us with the authentic myth symbolized by the ...
... sexual one , and from the point of view of that concern the sexual experience itself is what is really important , the begetting of children being an incidental by- product . That leaves us with the authentic myth symbolized by the ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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