The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion

by Northrop Frye

Book Overview

The publication in 1982 of Northrop Frye's The Great Code: The Bible and Literature was a literary event of major significance. Frye took what he called 'a fresh and firsthand look' at the Bible and analysed it as a literary critic, exploring its relation to Western literature and its impact on the creative imagination. Through an examination of such key aspects of language as myth, metaphor, and rhetoric he conveyed to the reader the results of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802068650
• ISBN13: 9780802068651
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"