The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
by Northrop Frye
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Bellevue, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Tall 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, 261pp. Unclipped dust jacket (14.95). Stated First Edition. Boards show minor fading, light rubbing to dust jacket. A landmark work of scholarship in the literary study of the Bible, surveying language, myth, metaphor and typology. An exceptional copy in mylar.
Synopsis
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). Indices.
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- Bookseller
- Heaven-Haven Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B-89
- Title
- The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
- Author
- Northrop Frye
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Date Published
- 1982
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays & Literary Criticism; Christianity;
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