Shaw, W. David <br/><br/>
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) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442697904 9781442685307 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Wisdom--History.<br/>Wisdom in literature.<br/>Wisdom literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Oracles in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56  / .S437 2009