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Yale University Press Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
The elasticity of the term canon is the subject of <I>Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture</I> by literary critic Robert Alter (author of <I>The Art of Biblical Narrative</I> and translator of <I>Genesis</I> and <I>The David Story</I>). Canon originally referred only to the collection of sacred scriptures endorsed by ecclesiastical authority, but in recent decades has been adapted to a secular context, as a name for the collection of great books most venerated by mainstream cultural authorities. <p> Alter begins with a brief essay on the history of the canon of the Hebrew Bible; his subsequent readings of Kafka, Joyce, and the Russian poet Bialik (who wrote in Hebrew) concentrate on the ways in which each writer's creative strengths were enabled by their reference to the biblical canon. Together, the four essays present a compact, understated argument against the idea that canon is merely a vehicle for theological truths, and praising the perennial liveliness of the old canonical texts as a resource for imagination and moral reflection. <I>--Michael Joseph Gross</I>
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Yale University Press Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel
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W W Norton & Co Ltd Pleasures of Reading
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W W Norton & Co Ltd The David Story
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W W Norton & Co Ltd The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
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Basic Books The Art of Biblical Narrative
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Continuum International Publishing Group - T & T C The Art of Biblical Poetry
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Harvard University Press Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin and Scholem
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