The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Collected Works of Northrop Frye, 19, Band 19) - Hardcover

Buch 14 von 27: Collected Works of Northrop Frye

Frye, Northrop

 
9780802091208: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Collected Works of Northrop Frye, 19, Band 19)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802091202 ISBN 13: 9780802091208
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Considered by many to be Northrop Frye's magnum opus, The Great Code (1982) reflects a lifetime of thinking about the patterns and meanings of the Bible. In this new edition of The Great Code, Alvin A. Lee presents a corrected and fully annotated version of Frye's text, as well as a comprehensive introduction to help contextualize this important work and guide readers through its allusive passages. Lee's introduction provides a synoptic account of the role of the Bible in Frye's intellectual and spiritual odyssey, as well as a description of how The Great Code as a book came into existence, and an introductory critique of the shape and meaning of the book's argument.

The Great Code is culturally allusive to a high degree. It takes much of its inspiration from the Bible itself, including a profusion of biblical passages, but also from the author's extensive reading of a host of other texts from ancient times until the late twentieth century. Lee's extensive annotation illustrates, beyond question, that Frye's knowledge of the Bible and how it has worked in Western culture was at once profound and visionary. This new edition not only re-presents Frye's text in a clear, correct, and fully annotated form, it goes a long way in helping us understand the widespread scholarly and popular reception that met this extraordinary and in some ways revolutionary book and how it can still be richly rewarding for readers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alvin A. Lee is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at McMaster University, a research associate at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and general editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802091202
ISBN 13 
9780802091208
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
464
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