Secrets of the oracle a history of wisdom from Zeno to Yeats /
Shaw, W. David
Secrets of the oracle a history of wisdom from Zeno to Yeats / W. David Shaw. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (x, 387 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781442697904 9781442685307
Wisdom--History.
Wisdom in literature.
Wisdom literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Oracles in literature.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .S437 2009
Secrets of the oracle a history of wisdom from Zeno to Yeats / W. David Shaw. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (x, 387 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781442697904 9781442685307
Wisdom--History.
Wisdom in literature.
Wisdom literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Oracles in literature.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .S437 2009