Robert Alter
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Alter is professor of the Graduate School and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age, Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel, and Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (Princeton). He lives in Berkeley, California.
From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. Updated with a new preface, myriad revisions,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the classic study of the Bible as literature, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award.
Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes how the Hebrew Bible's many authors used innovative literary styles and...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A literary investigation of how the modern metropolis--intoxicating, disturbing, powerful--changed perceptions and irrevocably altered the Western imagination. Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space,...
9) Swamp sister
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The swamp had no name and no landmarks: just cypress, Spanish moss, and alligators - and a wrecked plane with eighty thousand dollars inside it. The man who found the Money Plane could have any woman he wanted - even the deliriously carnal Dorry Mears - as long as he kept the source of his fortune a secret. But in the swamp no secret was ever safe. And neither was anyone who had Dorry for a mistress.
12) The transformative power of crisis: our journey to psychological healing and spiritual awakening
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The largest English language collection to date from Israel's finest poet Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth century, Amichai created remarkably accessible poems, vivid in their evocation of the Israeli landscape and historical predicament, yet universally resonant. His are some of the most moving love poems written in any language in the past two generations;...
