The Educated ImaginationIndiana University Press, 22 gen 1964 - 160 pagine Addressed to educators and general readers—the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life—this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and kaleidoscopic experience found in the study of literature. |
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... myths , then , would attach themselves to this cycle which stretches like a backbone through the middle of both ... Myths of this kind come into the stories of Perseus , Theseus and Hercules in Greek myth , and they lurk behind many of ...
... myths give us , much more clearly than the Bible , the main episodes of the central myth of the hero whose mysterious birth , triumph and marriage , death and betrayal and eventual rebirth follow the rhythm of the sun and the seasons ...
... myths themselves are studied and experimented with . The particular myth that's been organizing this talk , and in a way the whole series , is the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible . The civilization we live in at present is a ...