Canon and creativity : modern writing and the authority of scripture
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Canon and creativity : modern writing and the authority of scripture
Yale University Press, c2000
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In this text, literary critic Robert Alter explores the ways in which a range of iconoclastic 20th-century authors have put to use the stories, language and imagery of the Hebrew Bible. He makes a case against the prevalent notion of the canon as a vehicle of ideological enforcement.
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