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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... thing admirable and virtuous . Thrasymachus is not talking about this kind of thing at all : he is speaking for the ... things are , " he is no more helped by Socrates ' vision of justice as each man doing what by nature he is best ...
... thing admirable and virtuous . Thrasymachus is not talking about this kind of thing at all : he is speaking for the ... things are , " he is no more helped by Socrates ' vision of justice as each man doing what by nature he is best ...
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... things . It may be true that every abstract word descends historically from a concrete ancestor : " Is not your very attention a stretching - to ? " asks Carlyle . It does not follow that we can translate a sen- tence made up of ...
... things . It may be true that every abstract word descends historically from a concrete ancestor : " Is not your very attention a stretching - to ? " asks Carlyle . It does not follow that we can translate a sen- tence made up of ...
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... thing but the thing itself , " also the title of a poem by Wallace Stevens . In various forms of painting , such as ... things transfigured by identi- fication with the perceiver . An object impregnated , so to speak , by a perceiver is ...
... thing but the thing itself , " also the title of a poem by Wallace Stevens . In various forms of painting , such as ... things transfigured by identi- fication with the perceiver . An object impregnated , so to speak , by a perceiver is ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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