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Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature

by Northrop Frye · 1990

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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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literary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of this
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religionreligionMore like thisLess of thisBibleBibleMore like thisLess of thisChristianChristianMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 372 pages

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