Canon and Creativity (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Alter
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism
Robert Alter is professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely known and respected as a biblical scholar and as a critic of literature in general. The book that put him on the scholarly map was The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (1989), a powerfully influential book in the academic community. Other noteworthy titles include The Art of Biblical Narrative (1981), The Literary Guide to the Bible, co-edited with Frank Kermode (1987), Genesis: A New Translation with Commentary (1996), and The...
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