Robert Alter
Biographic Data
| ID | 255486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Alter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Alter |
| SIGNATURE | ALTER R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Amos Oz
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist “Concise and compelling.”—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939–2018) was one of Israel’s most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay collections, and novellas written between 1965 and shortly before his death. In this fir…
Nabokov and the Real World
From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times a…
The Art of Bible Translation
Frank K ermode's literary B ible
Pleasure and Change
Pleasure and Change
Hebrew and Modernity
Scholem and Modernism
Discourse, Direct and Indirect
The predisposition of the biblical writers to use direct discourse as a means of narration has often been noted, and the new wave of literary studies of the Bible since the I970s has done much to illuminate the artful complexity in the deployment of direct discourse. Because biblical narrative is ve
The Invention of Hebrew Prose
Salvaging Literature, Savaging Theory
The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
The difference of literature character and the connection with reality style allusion structure perspective multiple readings and the bog of indeterminacy. (Part contents)
The Literary Guide to the Bible
Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis (1930-1986) spent three of his adolescent years in a Nazi camp before arriving in Palestine in 1946. He became one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry and is considered a major world poet of his generation. A master scholar of Hebrew literature, Pagis drew fully on classical texts and infused his poetry with a centuries-old mysticism. Yet he also brought an immediacy and colloquialism to Hebrew poetry. In these superbly …
The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism
The Literary Guide to the Bible
The Difference of Literature
Are the kinds of attention we bring to bear on literature, the skills we use to read it, different from those we exercise in reading other sorts of texts? A generation ago, most critical circles in Europe and America would have answered the question unhesitatingly with a fervent yes. Behind that affirmation stood a long tradition of ideas about literature as a unique repository of values and a uniquely rich vehicle of expression that went back at…
The Bible as Literature
Some Pitfalls in the "Literary Approach" to Biblical Narrative
The Art of Biblical Narrative
From Line to Story in Biblical Verse
Perhaps the greatest peculiarity of biblical poetry among the literatures of the ancient Mediterranean world is its seeming avoidance of narrative. The Hebrew writers used verse for celebratory song, dirge, oracle, oratory, prophecy, reflective and didactic argument, liturgy, and often as a heightening or summarizing inset in the prose narratives - but only marginally and minimally to tell a tale. This absence of narrative is all the more strikin…
The art of Biblical narrative
This book offers a literary approach to the biblical text. Robert Alter brings numerous textual examples of the different types of biblical narrative, e.g., dialogue, repetition, narration.
Sacred History and the Beginnings of Prose Fiction
The Hebrew Bible is generally perceived, with considerable justice, as sacred history, and both terms of that status have often been invoked to argue against the applicability to the Bible of the methods of literary analysis. If the text is sacred, if it was grasped by the audiences for whom it was made as a revelation of God's will, perhaps of His literal words, how can one hope to explain it through categories developed for the understanding of…
Biblical Type-Scenes and the Uses of Convention
Henry Fielding and the Language of Irony
Henry Fielding and the Language of Irony
Biblical Type-Scenes and the Uses of Convention
Sacred History and the Beginnings of Prose Fiction
The Hebrew Bible is generally perceived, with considerable justice, as sacred history, and both terms of that status have often been invoked to argue against the applicability to the Bible of the methods of literary analysis. If the text is sacred, if it was grasped by the audiences for whom it was made as a revelation of God's will, perhaps of His literal words, how can one hope to explain it through categories developed for the understanding of…
The art of Biblical narrative
This book offers a literary approach to the biblical text. Robert Alter brings numerous textual examples of the different types of biblical narrative, e.g., dialogue, repetition, narration.
The Art of Biblical Narrative
From Line to Story in Biblical Verse
Perhaps the greatest peculiarity of biblical poetry among the literatures of the ancient Mediterranean world is its seeming avoidance of narrative. The Hebrew writers used verse for celebratory song, dirge, oracle, oratory, prophecy, reflective and didactic argument, liturgy, and often as a heightening or summarizing inset in the prose narratives - but only marginally and minimally to tell a tale. This absence of narrative is all the more strikin…
Some Pitfalls in the "Literary Approach" to Biblical Narrative
The Bible as Literature
The Literary Guide to the Bible
The Difference of Literature
Are the kinds of attention we bring to bear on literature, the skills we use to read it, different from those we exercise in reading other sorts of texts? A generation ago, most critical circles in Europe and America would have answered the question unhesitatingly with a fervent yes. Behind that affirmation stood a long tradition of ideas about literature as a unique repository of values and a uniquely rich vehicle of expression that went back at…
The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
The difference of literature character and the connection with reality style allusion structure perspective multiple readings and the bog of indeterminacy. (Part contents)
The Literary Guide to the Bible
Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis (1930-1986) spent three of his adolescent years in a Nazi camp before arriving in Palestine in 1946. He became one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry and is considered a major world poet of his generation. A master scholar of Hebrew literature, Pagis drew fully on classical texts and infused his poetry with a centuries-old mysticism. Yet he also brought an immediacy and colloquialism to Hebrew poetry. In these superbly …
The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism
The Invention of Hebrew Prose
Salvaging Literature, Savaging Theory
Discourse, Direct and Indirect
The predisposition of the biblical writers to use direct discourse as a means of narration has often been noted, and the new wave of literary studies of the Bible since the I970s has done much to illuminate the artful complexity in the deployment of direct discourse. Because biblical narrative is ve
Scholem and Modernism
Hebrew and Modernity
Pleasure and Change
Pleasure and Change
Frank K ermode's literary B ible
The Art of Bible Translation
Nabokov and the Real World
From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times a…
Amos Oz
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist “Concise and compelling.”—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939–2018) was one of Israel’s most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay collections, and novellas written between 1965 and shortly before his death. In this fir…
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