The Bible: Utopian, Dystopian, or Neither?: Or: Northrop Frye Meets Monty Python

In The Great Code (1982), Northrop Frye rewrites the mediaeval and early modern myth of human existence as progression from Fall to Judgment from a humanistic and Romantic perspective, recoding the Bible as a series of utopian visions which together constitute a single grand utopian vision. This art...

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Main Author: Davies, Philip R. 1945- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion [2012]
In: Relegere
Year: 2012, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-107
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