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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... usually been called imaginative . Such a mode takes us into a more open - ended world , breaking apart the solidified dogmas that ideologies seem to hanker for . An imaginative response is one in which the distinction between the ...
... usually been called imaginative . Such a mode takes us into a more open - ended world , breaking apart the solidified dogmas that ideologies seem to hanker for . An imaginative response is one in which the distinction between the ...
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... usually associated with philoso- phy . Whitehead's Process and Reality is subtitled “ an essay on cosmology . " But we have quoted Whitehead as saying that philosophical systems usually conceal something much more simple and naive ...
... usually associated with philoso- phy . Whitehead's Process and Reality is subtitled “ an essay on cosmology . " But we have quoted Whitehead as saying that philosophical systems usually conceal something much more simple and naive ...
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... usually assumed to be in the sky , or above the sky . In Mesopotamia such temples usually took the form of what is known as the ziggurat , a building of several stories , with each story recessed from the one below it . The different ...
... usually assumed to be in the sky , or above the sky . In Mesopotamia such temples usually took the form of what is known as the ziggurat , a building of several stories , with each story recessed from the one below it . The different ...
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Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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