Words with power : being a second study of "the Bible and literature" / Northrop Frye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frye, Northrop.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible and literature.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1990]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-320) and index.

ISBN:

015198462X :

OCLC:

21762141