Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)

Robert Alter

ISBN 10: 0300084242 / ISBN 13: 9780300084245

Published by Yale University Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300084242
• ISBN 13: 9780300084245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Approaching the debates about literary canon from an entirely new angle, a foremost literary critic explores how a range of iconoclastic twentieth-century authors (in particular Kafka, Bialik, and Joyce) have put to use the paramount canonical text--the Hebrew Bible. Robert Alter argues against the notion that the canon is a vehicle of ideological enforcement and shows instead that canons are by nature surprisingly elastic and enabling for later writers

About the Author

Robert Alter is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many previous books are The Art of Biblical Narrative, Necessary Angels, and most recently The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel.