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    The Art of Biblical NarrativeThe Great Code: The Bible and Literature.Laurent Stern, Robert Alter & Northrop Frye - 1983 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 41 (3):340.
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    Biblical Type-Scenes and the Uses of Convention.Robert Alter - 1978 - Critical Inquiry 5 (2):355-368.
    One of the chief difficulties we encounter as modern readers in perceiving the artistry of biblical narrative is precisely that we have lost most of the keys to the conventions out of which it was shaped. The professional Bible scholars have not offered much help in this regard, for their closest approximation to the study of convention is form criticism, which is set on finding recurrent regularities of pattern rather than the manifold variations upon a pattern that any system of (...)
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    Northrop Frye, entre archétype et typologie.Robert Alter - 2001 - Recherches de Science Religieuse 3 (3):403-417.
    Partant de la “ définition provisoire ” que N. Frye dans Le Grand Code donne du littéraire qui serait “ une structure verbale qui existe pour elle-même ”, Robert Alter pense que cette théorie, qui reste au centre de l'ouvrage, est vulnérable du point de vue de la théorie de la littérature et par rapport à la description de la nature de la Bible. Dans les deux parties de cet article, R. Alter entend montrer comment la conception imaginative de Frye (...)
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    Reading style in Dickens.Robert Alter - 1996 - Philosophy and Literature 20 (1):130-137.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reading Style In DickensRobert AlterIt is a sad symptom of the devolution of literary studies and of our culture’s relation to language that it should at all be necessary to explain that style is crucial to the experience of reading. As the language of literature has been variously designated a mask for ideology, an expression of the “poetics of culture,” or a medium of communication not different in kind (...)
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    The Hebrew Bible in Literary CriticismThe Literary Guide to the BibleLiterary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation.Adele Berlin, Alex Preminger, Edward L. Greenstein, Robert Alter, Frank Kermode & Tremper Longman - 1989 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (4):673.
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    Salvaging Literature, Savaging TheoryThe Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age. [REVIEW]Jonathan Beck & Robert Alter - 1991 - Diacritics 21 (1):75.
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