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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... writing are later than the Bible , because they depend on certain social and technological developments that took a long time to become fully functional . The writing of history , for example , emerges from chron- icle and hearsay and ...
... writing are later than the Bible , because they depend on certain social and technological developments that took a long time to become fully functional . The writing of history , for example , emerges from chron- icle and hearsay and ...
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... writing . The authority of open science is recognized in theory in both dem- ocratic and totalitarian societies , but both still try to control openness in historical writing by hiding or destroying the rel- evant documents . Short ...
... writing . The authority of open science is recognized in theory in both dem- ocratic and totalitarian societies , but both still try to control openness in historical writing by hiding or destroying the rel- evant documents . Short ...
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... writing . Rhetorical structures are those that are peculiarly logocentric , where even written authorship points to a speaking personality addressing a listening audience . It is the association of rhetorical writing with speech that ...
... writing . Rhetorical structures are those that are peculiarly logocentric , where even written authorship points to a speaking personality addressing a listening audience . It is the association of rhetorical writing with speech that ...
Contents
Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
Copyright | |
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