Sentences with phrase «concluding fugue»

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

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or the equally radiant conclusion of his doctrine of creation in God's Yes to the world, or the three chapters on God's perfections, or that astonishing triple fugue on faith, obedience and prayer that concludes the doctrine of providence.