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Holloway constructed the concept as a means to rediscover the value of
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of an entire society, the pronouncements of the biblical prophet and
Victorian sage begin with the assumption that, however traditional their messages may once have been, they are now forgotten or actively opposed by society." The sage borrows from the
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in that "Whereas the pronouncements of traditional wisdom literature always take as their point of departure the assumption that they embody the accepted,
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in which the writer chastises and instructs the reader about contemporary social issues, often utilising discourses of
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History of
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Ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Boston: Blackwell
Publishers Ltd., 1999.
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