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1 online resource (x, 387 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-373) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part 1 An Owl for Apollo: Wisdom and The Poets -- 1 Descent of the Owl: Philosophy among the Poets -- 2 Tennyson and Zeno: Three Infinities -- 3 How Poets Die to Time: The Sublime Oracle -- 4 Making Peace with Time: The Beautiful Oracle -- 5 The Ruins of Time: The Grotesque Oracle -- Part 2 Homage To Wisdom: From Delphi to Zen -- 6 Wisdom and the Logos: John's Gospel to Four Quartets -- 7 Gnostic Wisdom: Parable and Koan -- 8 Paradox and Oracle: Crucible versus Mirror -- 9 Copy-Speech and Counter-Love: Wordsworth and Frost -- 10 'A River Runs, through It' and Joyce's 'The Dead' -- Part 3 Owls, Bulls, and Serpents: Wisdom or Guile? -- 11 The Wise Owl: George Eliot's Arrested Wit -- 12 The Serpent of Irony: Wisdom or Guile? -- 13 Groucho Marx to Bernard Shaw: The Irish Bull -- 14 Oracles of Wit: Oscar Wilde and Northrop Frye -- Part 4 Wisdom At Gettysburg: Rewriting the Oracles -- 15 From Delphi to Gettysburg: Changing the Covenant -- 16 Coleridge and Huxley: Experiment or Decree? -- 17 Evolving Oracles: Newman, Browning, and Shakespeare -- 18 An Underground Oracle: 'Look in Your Heart and Write. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wisdom -- History.
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Wisdom. |
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History. |
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Wisdom in literature.
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Wisdom in literature. |
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Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Wisdom literature. |
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Oracles in literature.
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Oracles in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781442640344 |
| ISBN |
9781442697904 (electronic book) |
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1442697903 (electronic book) |
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9781442685307 (electronic book) |
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1442685301 (electronic book) |
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9781442640344 (print) |
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1442640340 |
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