robert alter
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Poetic allegiance from rosclarke 916 days old
I'm not sure I've ever read Alter's chapter on the Psalms before today. Anyway, it turns out to be as perceptive and thoughtful as all his other reflection ...
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Structure and movement from rosclarke 1038 days old
[ ... ] within the text. Robert Alter again: Structure suggests an image of static form extended in space, like a building, and I want to correct ...
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Job and poetry from rosclarke 1038 days old
[ ... ] pleasing to find that Robert Alter thinks the same, at least with respect to Job: What I am suggesting is that the exploration of the problem of ...
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Psychopathic minimalism - a small contribution from rosclarke 1279 days old
[ ... ] the text. Here's what Robert Alter (talking about literature generally, in 'The Pleasures of Reading') has to say about allusion: ‘Allusion is not ...
