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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... story is that of late childbirth , where a woman too old to bear a child naturally is allowed a son as a special ... story , then , is the sequence of affliction , exile , return and rehabilitation in the life of Naomi , whose story ...
... story is that of late childbirth , where a woman too old to bear a child naturally is allowed a son as a special ... story , then , is the sequence of affliction , exile , return and rehabilitation in the life of Naomi , whose story ...
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... stories that reflect the curious nineteenth - century fascina- tion with the story of Salome , Herodias , and the severed head of John the Baptist . In one of the most condensed poems ever written , Mallarmé's " Cantique de Saint - Jean ...
... stories that reflect the curious nineteenth - century fascina- tion with the story of Salome , Herodias , and the severed head of John the Baptist . In one of the most condensed poems ever written , Mallarmé's " Cantique de Saint - Jean ...
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... story about the painter Salvator Rosa , in which a miser is cured of his miserliness and lechery by seeing his double on the stage , the part of the dou- ble being enacted by the painter . In another Hoffmann story , " The Golden Pot ...
... story about the painter Salvator Rosa , in which a miser is cured of his miserliness and lechery by seeing his double on the stage , the part of the dou- ble being enacted by the painter . In another Hoffmann story , " The Golden Pot ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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