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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Sequence and Mode | 3 |
Concern and Myth | 30 |
Identity and Metaphor | 63 |
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Adam Anatomy of Criticism angels ascendancy aspect associated axis mundi become beginning Bible Biblical Blake Blake's body bride called century chapter Christ Christian conception consciousness context cosmos creation creative criticism culture cycle cyclical Dante death demonic parody descent dialectic divine dream earth elements example experience fact fall female figure Finnegans Wake Genesis gods Gospels heaven hell hierogamy human ical identity ideology imagery imaginative Jacob's ladder Jesus journey kerygmatic kind king ladder language literary literature lower world male meaning metaphor mode movement myth mythical mythology narrative natural environment nature Old Testament Paradise Paradise Lost phrase poem poetic poetry poets present primary concerns prophetic psyche purgatorial reader relation rhetoric says seems sense sexual social society Song of Songs soul speak spirit story structure suggests symbol theme things Thrasymachus tion Tower of Babel tradition verbal virgin vision white goddess word writing Yeats