Canon and creativity
modern writing and the authority of scripture
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Publication
2000 - Yale Unversity Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
49,500 words, Guess
Page Count
198 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6783954M
- ISBN-100300084242
- OCLC Control Number43684638
- OCLC Control Numbercanoncreativitym0000alte
- Library of Congress Control Number00035168
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- LibraryThing1241735
- Goodreads398088
Classifications
- DDC809/.04
- LCCPN771 .A69 2000
Description
"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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