TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,W.David
TI  - Secrets of the oracle: a history of wisdom from Zeno to Yeats 
SN  - 9781442697904
AV  - PN56 .S437 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Wisdom
KW  - History
KW  - Wisdom in literature
KW  - Wisdom literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Oracles in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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