(Paperback)
By: Robert Alter
ISBN: 9780691211930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Robert Alter
ISBN: 9780691181493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Alter
ISBN: 9780691209142
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Alter
ISBN: 9780465022557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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(Hardback)
By: Robert Alter
ISBN: 9780691128818
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning. This book traces the ways that American novelists ranging from Melville, and Faulkner to Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy - have drawn on the resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own styles and visions of reality.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Robert Alter
ISBN: 9780465022564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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Investigates the mode and effect of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. This title presents three major concepts in biblical poetry (parallelism; narrative vs delineation; and, intensification), delving into an illuminating textual analysis using many examples from the Bible.
