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An edition of Canon and creativity (2000)

Canon and creativity

modern writing and the authority of scripture

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"In this book, one of our foremost literary critics views the much-debated question of the literary canon from an entirely new angle. Robert Alter explores the ways in which a range of iconoclastic twentieth-century authors have put to use the stories, language, and imagery of the paramount canonical text - the Hebrew Bible. Alter makes a compelling case against the prevalent, pejorative notion of the canon as a vehicle of ideological enforcement.

He shows instead that canons by nature are surprisingly elastic, providing later writers with imaginative resources even when those same writers rebel against what they conceive as the constraints of the canon."--BOOK JACKET.

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Yale Unversity Press
Language
English
Pages
198

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Subjects

Bible and literature, Canon (Literature), Modern Literature, History and criticism, Littérature, Kanon, Bijbel, Literatur, Bibel, Modernisme (cultuur), Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature), Bible et littérature, Einfluss, Letterkunde, Canon, 17.97 comparative literature: other, Histoire et critique, Literature, modern, history and criticism, Bible, commentaries

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19th century, 20th century
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Cover of: Canon and creativity
Canon and creativity: modern writing and the authority of scripture
2000, Yale Unversity Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
809/.04
Library of Congress
PN771 .A69 2000, PN771.A69 2000

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x, 198 p. ;
Number of pages
198

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0300084242
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00035168
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43684638
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1241735
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398088

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