LEADER 04467nam 2200709 450 001 9910458381103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8530-1 010 $a1-4426-9790-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442685307 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054139 035 $a(OCoLC)759157211 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442430 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487298 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12223434 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487298 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10442946 035 $a(PQKB)11034574 035 $a(CEL)433670 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226187 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272644 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672396 035 $a(DE-B1597)465178 035 $a(OCoLC)1013939022 035 $a(OCoLC)944176849 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442685307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672396 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258063 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054139 100 $a20160923h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSecrets of the oracle $ea history of wisdom from Zeno to Yeats /$fW. David Shaw 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (400 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4426-4034-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. 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 Two. 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 Three. 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 Four. 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' -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex -- $tBackmatter 330 $aWhat is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives? In Secrets of the Oracle, David Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written.Wisdom literature exists in two shaping forms - the aphorism, geared towards the past, and the oracle, a revolutionary impulse looking to the future. Secrets of the Oracle discusses both types of wisdom, finding them in the works of poets and philosophers from Tennyson and Zeno to Yeats and George Berkeley, from Browning and Schleiermacher to T.S. Eliot and F.H. Bradley. The book also discusses the contribution to wisdom of Jesus and the author of Ecclesiastes, of Abraham Lincoln and Norman Maclean. Part celebration of wisdom found and part lament for wisdom lost, Secrets of the Oracle is convincing in its assertion that wisdom articulates what is and offers creative visions of the future. 606 $aWisdom$xHistory 606 $aWisdom in literature 606 $aWisdom literature$xCriticism, interpretation, etc 606 $aOracles in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWisdom$xHistory. 615 0$aWisdom in literature. 615 0$aWisdom literature$xCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 0$aOracles in literature. 676 $a809/.93384 700 $aShaw$b W. David$g(William David),$089641 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458381103321 996 $aSecrets of the oracle$92146691 997 $aUNINA