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

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156983656
ISBN-13
9780156983655
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45648

Product Key Features

Book Title
Words with Power : Being a Second Study the Bibles and Literature
Number of Pages
372 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Religion, Semiotics & Theory, History, Biblical Studies / General
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion
Author
Northrop Frye
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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LCCN
90-039460
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Frye (1912-1991) analyzes the Bible's imagery, narrative structure and influence upon literary classics in his tremendously rich sequel to The Great Code: The Bible and Literature ., In his introduction to The Great Code ( LJ 6/1/82), Frye promised a sequel to his work on "the Bible and literature." Here is the promised volume, though it is not an entirely new book. In Part 1, Frye restates his critical position, his structural principle: the identity of mythology and literature. In Part 2, he focuses on specific mythological themes (mountain, garden, cave, furnace) that are variations of the cosmic axis mundi image. Throughout, he demonstrates his interest in the mythological structures that inform literature, including the Bible, instead of simply the literary characteristics of the Bible. While it is undeniable that myths often serve as structuring elements in the Bible, occasionally Frye allows myth criticism to overwhelm the text rather than shed light upon it. Thus there is the risk of forcing the text into the pre-established structure. This aside, there is enlightenment available for readers willing to work through it. Recommended. - Craig W. Beard, Har ding Univ. Lib., Searcy, Ark.
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
809/.93522
Synopsis
In Words With Power , literary critic and theorist Northrop 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., In Words With Power, literary critic and theorist Northrop 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.

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