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Israel: A Traveler's Literary Companion
A worthwhile introduction: A mixture -- beautiful, sad, weird. But definitely worthwhile. I was disappointed not to be successful in finding books available by these authors. Best two stories: The best two stories in the collection, in my opinion: You [... more]
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Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority ...
Amazon.com Review: The term canon, which originally referred only to the collection of sacred scriptures endorsed by ecclesiastical authority, has in recent decades been adapted to a secular context, as a name for the collection of great books most [... more]
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The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and ...
Amazon.com Review: There are countless good reasons to read The David Story, Robert Alter's new translation of the story of King David (beginning in I Samuel and ending in I Kings 2). In the book's introduction, Alter contends that the story of David is & [... more]
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The Art Of Biblical Narrative
A Fascinating Way to Read the Bible: Modern Biblical scholarship has tended toward a process of atomization: how many editors were involved in the creation of the Bible? How many different strands of tradition can we find in a given story? Robert Alter's [... more]
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The Art Of Biblical Poetry
This book should never be out of print: This is one of the books that I was supposed to read for a class but didn't get around to it until now. I am halfway through this book and it is one of the most readable academic books that I've read. It is no [... more]
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A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
Author: Robert Alter Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 848.309 EAN: 9780674535756 ISBN: 0674535758 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 1986-10-08 [... more]
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Modern Hebrew Literature
A superb critic: Alter is a superb critic with a deep knowledge of Hebrew literature down the generations. This is a relatively early effort but nonetheless contains much insightful writing. Author: Robert Alter Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 8 [... more]
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Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of ...
Book Description: One of our most respected literary critics investigates the ways that runaway growth of urban centers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries irrevocably altered the Western imagination. In sensitive interpretations of novels by [... more]
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The World of Biblical Literature
A convocation and a castigation: There are few voices in the arena of biblical studies who command the respect due Robert Alter. After a long career in biblical scholarship, he recently issued a new translation of the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim. This [... more]
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
Salubrious for those who do understand.: There has been a series of theoretical "culture wars" in the academy in the past quarter century, and these have taken their toll on the actual practice of reading literature qua literature, and not [... more]
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James Joyce's comic Messiah.: An article from: American ...
Author: Robert Alter Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 20 Publication Date: 1997-06-22 Release Date: 2005-07-28 [... more]
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The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
I Lift Up My Eyes: Robert Alter has achieved well-earned fame for unpacking the Hebrew Bible as literature, with the same unsentimental eye we would dedicate to Thomas Hardy or Lady Murasaki. And this new translation of the book of Psalms is no exception. [... more]
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