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020 _a9781442697904
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050 0 4 _aPN56
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049 _aNTA
100 1 _aShaw, W. David
_q(William David)
_e1
245 1 0 _aSecrets of the oracle
_ba history of wisdom from Zeno to Yeats /
_cW. David Shaw.
260 _aToronto [Ont. :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c(c)2009.
260 _a(Saint-Lazare, Quebec :
_bCanadian Electronic Library,
_c(c)2010).
300 _a1 online resource (x, 387 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aIntroduction --
_tPart 1 An Owl for Apollo: Wisdom and The Poets --
_t1 Descent of the Owl: Philosophy among the Poets --
_t2 Tennyson and Zeno: Three Infinities --
_t3 How Poets Die to Time: The Sublime Oracle --
_t4 Making Peace with Time: The Beautiful Oracle --
_t5 The Ruins of Time: The Grotesque Oracle --
_tPart 2 Homage To Wisdom: From Delphi to Zen --
_t6 Wisdom and the Logos: John's Gospel to Four Quartets --
_t7 Gnostic Wisdom: Parable and Koan --
_t8 Paradox and Oracle: Crucible versus Mirror --
_t9 Copy-Speech and Counter-Love: Wordsworth and Frost --
_t10 'A River Runs, through It' and Joyce's 'The Dead' --
_tPart 3 Owls, Bulls, and Serpents: Wisdom or Guile? --
_t11 The Wise Owl: George Eliot's Arrested Wit --
_t12 The Serpent of Irony: Wisdom or Guile? --
_t13 Groucho Marx to Bernard Shaw: The Irish Bull --
_t14 Oracles of Wit: Oscar Wilde and Northrop Frye --
_tPart 4 Wisdom At Gettysburg: Rewriting the Oracles --
_t15 From Delphi to Gettysburg: Changing the Covenant --
_t16 Coleridge and Huxley: Experiment or Decree? --
_t17 Evolving Oracles: Newman, Browning, and Shakespeare --
_t18 An Underground Oracle: 'Look in Your Heart and Write.
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650 0 _aWisdom
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWisdom in literature.
650 0 _aWisdom literature
_xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650 0 _aOracles in literature.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=682647&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell