Secrets of the oracle a history of wisdom from Zeno to Yeats / W. David Shaw.
| Author/creator | Shaw, W. David |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, |
| Description | x, 387 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Pt. 1, An owl for Apollo : wisdom and the poets. Descent of the owl : philosophy among the poets ; Tennyson and Zeno : three infinities ; How poets die to time : the sublime oracle ; Making peace with time : the beautiful oracle ; The ruins of time : the grotesque oracle -- Pt. 2, Homage to wisdom : from Delphi to zen. Wisdom and the logos : John's Gospel to Four quartets ; Gnostic wisdom : parable and koan ; Paradox and oracle : crucible versus mirror ; Copy-speech and counter-love : Wordsworth and Frost ; 'A river runs through it' and Joyce's 'The dead' -- Pt. 3, Owls, bulls, and serpents : wisdom or guile?. The wise owl : George Eliot's arrested wit ; The serpent of irony : wisdom or guile? ; Groucho Marx to Bernard Shaw : the Irish bull ; Oracles of wit : Oscar Wilde and Northrop Frye -- Pt. 4, Wisdom at Gettysburg : rewriting the oracles. From Delphi to Gettysburg : changing the covenant ; Coleridge and Huxely : experiment or decree? ; Evolving oracles : Newman, Browning, and Shakespeare ; An underground oracle : 'look in your heart and write'. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-373) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009292677 |
| ISBN | 9781442640344 |
| ISBN | 1442640340 |
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