Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.32.2.2
Kerygma in the Thought of Northrop Frye
Krešimir Šimić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
The article first briefly overviews the most important books of the highly voluminous oeuvre of the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye (1912–1991). They are the monograph on William Blake from 1947, Fearful Symmetry; then his most relevant book, Anatomy of Criticism from 1957, and three books about the Bible and literature: The Great Code (1982), Words with Power (1990) and The Double Vision (1991). They are first used to indicate the basis of Frye's thought (imaginational epistemology based on W. Blake); second, to indicate the central place of the kerygma in Frye's books on the Bible and literature; and third, to state what the kerygma actually is for Frye. Finally, a warning is given to the directiveness and the Gnosticism of Frye's interpretation of the kerygma.
Keywords
kerygma, Northrop Frye, Bible, literature, Gnosticism, body
Hrčak ID:
320350
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Publication date:
30.8.2024.
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