num_pages: 208
description: Approaching the debates about literary canon from an entirely new angle, a foremost literary critic explores how a range of iconoclastic twentieth-century authors (in particular Kafka, Bialik, and Joyce) have put to use the paramount canonical text--the Hebrew Bible. Robert Alter argues against the notion that the canon is a vehicle of ideological enforcement and shows instead that canons are by nature surprisingly elastic and enabling for later writers
language: English
title: Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
titlecomplete: Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)
genres: Religion
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Yale University Press