Canon and creativity : modern writing and the authority of scripture

Author(s)

• Alter, Robert

Bibliographic Information

Canon and creativity : modern writing and the authority of scripture

Robert Alter

Yale University Press, c2000

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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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Details

• NCID: BA49660824
• ISBN:
  • 0300084242
• LCCN: 00035168
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: x, 198 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN771
  • DC21 : 809/.04
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Canon (Literature)
  • LCSH : Bible and literature