Shira

S y Agnon

• Paperback | Engels
• Shira is Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon's final, epic novel. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1970, the Hebrew original was published a year later. W... Lees meer

Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age

Robert Alter, Alexander Whitney Knowlton

• Paperback | Engels
• From one of our premier literary scholars, here is a learned and witty introduction to the "sheer vitality of literature and the satisfactions of a cl... Lees meer

L'art du récit biblique

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Frans
• L'auteur éclaire l'un des chefs d'oeuvre de la littérature narrative en soulignant la singularité de la narration biblique : toutes les options littér... Lees meer

Necessary Angels

Robert Alter

• Hardcover | Engels
• In four elegant chapters, Robert Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters: Franz Kafka, Walter Benjami... Lees meer

Amos Oz

Robert Alter

• Hardcover | Duits
• Amos Oz (1939-2018) gilt als einer der prägenden und prominentesten Autoren Israels. Sein Name und sein Werk wurden zum Inbegriff moderner hebräischer... Lees meer

The Book of Psalms

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• A cornerstone of the scriptural canon, the Book of Psalms has been a source of solace and joy for countless readers over millennia. This timeless poet... Lees meer

Amos Oz

Robert Alter

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Lives
• An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist "Concise and compelling."--Benjamin Bali... Lees meer

L'art de la poésie biblique

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Frans
• Poésie et expérience de Dieu ont toujours été liées. Elles le sont de manière éminente dans la Bible, qui recourt à la poésie pour dire ce qui, de Die... Lees meer

The Art of Biblical Narrative

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the "groundbreaking" ( Los Angeles Times ) book that explores the Bible as literature, a ... Lees meer

Modern Hebrew Literature

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• A panorama of Hebrew prose presented in an English translation that makes these masterly works available to a wide audience. Lees meer

The David Story

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Wester... Lees meer

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Mario Vargas Llosa, Katherine C Epstein, Cass R Sunstein, Mark Edmundson, James Wolcott, Elliot Ackerman, Moshe Halbertal, Noga Arikha, Carlos Fraenkel, Daphne Merkin, James Russell, Robert Alter, Rachel Connolly, Helen Vendler, Leslie Williams

• Paperback | Engels
• Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics , is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this issue ... Lees meer

Pen of Iron

Robert Alter

• Hardcover | Engels
• How the King James Bible has influenced the style of the American novel from Melville to Cormac McCarthy The simple yet grand language of the King Jam... Lees meer

A Lion for Love

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• Traces the life of the nineteenth century French novelist, attempts to portray his complex personality, and analyzes his major works. Lees meer

The Wisdom Books

Robert Alter

• Hardcover | Engels
• Here, in Robert Alter's bold new translation, are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is ... Lees meer

Nabokov and the Real World

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of ... Lees meer

Imagined Cities

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth cen... Lees meer

The Five Books of Moses

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive ... Lees meer

Motives for Fiction

Robert Alter

• Hardcover | Engels
• "For many serious readers," Robert Alter writes in his preface, "the novel still matters, and I have tried here to suggest some reasons why that shoul... Lees meer

Strong as Death Is Love

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Song of Songs; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; and Daniel offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. As distant in time from t... Lees meer

The Hebrew Bible

Robert Alter

• Hardcover | Engels
• A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative wor... Lees meer

Canon and Creativity

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels | Franz Rosenzweig Lecture
• In this illuminating book, one of our foremost literary critics views the much-debated question of the literary canon from an entirely new angle. Robe... Lees meer

The Art of Biblical Poetry

Robert Alter

• Paperback | Engels
• Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a ... Lees meer

The Transformative Power of Crisis

Robert Alter, Jane Alter

• Paperback
• This guide to a journey toward psychological healing and spiritual growth uses case studies to show how to turn painful moments from the past into ste... Lees meer