The great code : the Bible and literature / Northrop Frye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frye, Northrop.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible and literature.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1982]

Summary:

An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all other epics and sacred writings. "No one has set forth so clearly, so subtly, or with such cogent energy as Frye the literary aspect of our biblical heritage" (New York Times Book Review).

Contents:

The order of words

Language I

Myth I

Metaphor I

Typology I

The order of types

Typology II: phases of revelation

Metaphor II: imagery

Myth II: narrative

Language II: rhetoric.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Conference on Christianity & Literature Book of the Year Award, Winner, 1982

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1982".

Potok Collection copy has pages 76-80 from Commentary August 1982 laid in.

Potok Collection copy is "B" printing.

Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

Other Format:

Online version: Frye, Northrop. Great code.

ISBN:

015136902X

9780151369027

0774701366

9780774701365

9780156027809

0156027801

OCLC:

7975883