Canon and creativity : modern writing and the authority of scripture / Robert Alter.

"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 can...

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Main Author: Alter, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Canons, canonicity, and literary expression
  • The double canonicity of the Hebrew Bible
  • Franz Kafka : wrenching scripture
  • Haim Nahman Bialik : superimposed worlds
  • James Joyce : the synoptic canon.