The Pleasures of reading in an ideological age, A Lion for love, The No nibbling book



Defenses of the imagination

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0000055467 / 1978-04-06
Date of Publication:
March 15, 1978
Date of Creation:
1977
Date in Notice:
notice: 1977
Title:
Defenses of the imagination : Jewish writers and modern historical crisis / Robert Alter.
Edition:
1st ed.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: addition to the essay, "Agnon's Mediterranean myth."
Previous Registration:
Appl. states that all essays are preexisting material.
Copyright Claimant:
The Jewish Publication Society of America
Authorship on Application:
The Jewish Publication Society of America, employer for hire.
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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The Jewish Publication Society of America (3 documents)
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A Lion for love

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0000343556 / 1979-10-15
Date of Publication:
September 15, 1979
Date of Creation:
1978
Title:
A Lion for love : a critical biography of Stendhal / by Robert Alter in collaboration with Carol Cosman.
Imprint:
New York : Basic Books, c1979.
Description:
285 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Carol Cosman (9 documents)
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Robert Alter 1935-

The No nibbling book

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0000719777 / 1981-05-27
Date of Publication:
May 7, 1981
Date of Creation:
1981
Title:
The No nibbling book : one hundred & twenty eight things to remember to do at the refrigerator door so you won't open it / Robert Mark Alter.
Imprint:
New York : Putnam, c1981.
Description:
128 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Mark Alter
Names:
Robert Mark Alter

The Jew who didn't get away

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0000998640 / 1982-09-23
Date of Publication:
July 12, 1982
Date of Creation:
1981
Title:
The Jew who didn't get away : on the possibility of an American Jewish culture / Robert Alter.
Variant title:
The Jew who didn't get away : on the possibility of an American Jewish culture
Other Title:
Judaism, summer 1982
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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How convention helps us read

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001200003 / 1983-07-01
Date of Publication:
May 2, 1983
Date of Creation:
1982
Title:
How convention helps us read : the case of the Bible's annunciation type-scene / Robert Alter.
Other Title:
Prooftexts, May 1983
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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Motives for fiction

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001311594 / 1984-04-03
Date of Publication:
March 27, 1984
Date of Creation:
1984
Title:
Motives for fiction / Robert Alter.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "pref., chap. 14, notes, supplemental editing, index, compilation and revision of material in chap. 1-13, 15 & 16."
Imprint:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984.
Description:
234 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Authorship on Application:
supplemental editing, index: President and Fellows of Harvard College, employer for hire.
Names:
Robert Alter 1935-
Harvard University. President and Fellows of Harvard College (3713 documents)
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From line to story in Biblical verse

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001515342 / 1985-01-18
Date of Publication:
April 15, 1984
Date of Creation:
1983
Title:
From line to story in Biblical verse / Robert Alter.
Other Title:
Poetics today, v. 4, no. 4
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Notes:
Pub. in Israel
Names:
Robert Alter

The Art of biblical narrative

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001665303 / 1985-10-01
Date of Publication:
July 10, 1981
Date of Creation:
1981
Title:
The Art of biblical narrative / Robert Alter.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: editing, revisions & additions.
Imprint:
New York : Basic Books, c1981.
Description:
195 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter

The Art of Biblical poetry

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001700336 / 1985-11-21
Date of Publication:
October 21, 1985
Date of Creation:
1985
Title:
The Art of Biblical poetry / Robert Alter.
Imprint:
New York : Basic Books, c1985.
Description:
228 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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The Poetry of the Bible

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0001721756 / 1985-12-20
Date of Publication:
September 30, 1985
Date of Creation:
1985
Title:
The Poetry of the Bible / by Robert Alter.
Other Title:
New republic, Sept. 30, 1985
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Notes:
New republic, Sept. 30, 1985, p. 28-31
Names:
Robert Alter

The Literary guide to the Bible

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002228106 / 1988-01-19
Date of Publication:
October 20, 1987
Date of Creation:
1987
Title:
The Literary guide to the Bible / edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode.
Imprint:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987.
Description:
678 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter & Frank Kermode
Authorship on Application:
J. P. Fokkelman ("Genesis" & "Exodus"), David Damrosch ("Leviticus"), James S. Ackerman ("Numbers" & "Jonah") et al.
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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Frank Kermode 1919-
J. P. Fokkelman
David Damrosch (4 documents)
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James S. Ackerman (8 documents)
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Inventing Hebrew prose

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002293485 / 1988-04-25
Date of Publication:
March 1, 1988
Date of Creation:
1988
Title:
Inventing Hebrew prose / Robert Alter.
Other Title:
Commentary, March 1988
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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The Invention of Hebrew prose

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002341627 / 1988-06-27
Date of Publication:
June 10, 1988
Date of Creation:
1988
Title:
The Invention of Hebrew prose : modern fiction and the language of realism / Robert Alter.
Series:
The Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies
Imprint:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1988.
Description:
122 p.
Other Title:
The Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies
Copyright Claimant:
University of Washington Press
Names:
Robert Alter 1935-
University of Washington Press (332 documents)
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The Pleasures of reading in an ideological age

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002599504 / 1989-06-26
Date of Publication:
May 2, 1989
Date of Creation:
1988
Title:
The Pleasures of reading in an ideological age / Robert Alter.
Imprint:
New York : Simon and Schuster, c1989.
Description:
250 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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Shira

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002722095 / 1989-12-15
Date of Publication:
October 12, 1989
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
Shira / S. Y. Agnon ; translated from the Hebrew by Zeva Shapiro ; with an afterword by Robert Alter.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: "English translation."
Imprint:
New York : Schocken Books, c1989.
Description:
585 p.
Other Title:
Shirah.
Copyright Claimant:
Schocken Books, Inc.
Notes:
Translation of Shirah.
Names:
Zeva Shapiro
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1888-1970
Schocken Books, Inc. (90 documents)
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Shira

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002722096 / 1989-12-15
Date of Publication:
October 12, 1989
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
Shira / S. Y. Agnon ; translated from the Hebrew by Zeva Shapiro ; with an afterword by Robert Alter.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Imprint:
New York : Schocken Books, c1989.
Description:
585 p.
Other Title:
Shirah.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter on afterword;
Notes:
Translation of Shirah.
Names:
Zeva Shapiro
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1888-1970

The Spirits and the letters

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0002835287 / 1990-05-10
Date of Publication:
December 11, 1989
Date of Creation:
1989
Title:
The Spirits and the letters / by Robert Alter.
Other Title:
The New republic, Dec. 18, 1989
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter

Necessary angels

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003065753 / 1991-05-21
Date of Publication:
March 15, 1991
Date of Creation:
1991
Title:
Necessary angels : tradition and modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem / Robert Alter.
Description:
1 v.
Variant title:
Necessary angels : tradition and modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Authorship on Application:
supplemental editing, index: President and Fellows of Harvard College, employer for hire.
Names:
Robert Alter 1935-
Harvard University. President and Fellows of Harvard College (3713 documents)
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The World of biblical literature

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003242114 / 1992-02-03
Date of Publication:
January 24, 1992
Date of Creation:
1991
Title:
The World of biblical literature / Robert Alter.
Description:
1 v.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter 1935-

Biblical imperatives and literary play

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003280352 / 1991-12-24
Date of Publication:
November 22, 1991
Date of Creation:
1991
Title:
Biblical imperatives and literary play / Robert Alter, 1935-.
Other Title:
"Not in heaven": coherence and complexity in biblical narrative
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter 1935-

Modernism and nostalgia

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003676555 / 1993-11-24
Date of Publication:
August 1, 1993
Date of Creation:
1993
Title:
Modernism and nostalgia / Robert Alter.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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Hebrew and modernity

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0003856716 / 1994-06-16
Date of Publication:
May 30, 1994
Date of Creation:
1994
Title:
Hebrew and modernity / Robert Alter.
Imprint:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.
Description:
192 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter, 1935-
Names:
Robert Alter 1935-

The song of songs

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0004083832 / 1995-08-11
Date of Publication:
March 23, 1995
Date of Creation:
1994
Title:
The song of songs : a new translation with an introd. & commentary / Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch ; afterword by Robert Alter.
Edition:
1st ed.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: additions, excluding afterword, Hebrew text & prev. pub. portions.
Previous Registration:
Preexisting material: Hebrew text of Song of Solomon.
Copyright Note:
C.O. correspondence.
Imprint:
New York : Random House, c1995.
Description:
253 p.
Other Title:
Song of Solomon
Copyright Claimant:
Ariel Bloch & Chana Bloch
Names:
Robert Alter
Ariel Bloch
Chana Bloch (3 documents)
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The song of songs

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0004083833 / 1995-08-11
Date of Publication:
March 23, 1995
Date of Creation:
1994
Title:
The song of songs : a new translation with an introd. & commentary / Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch ; afterword by Robert Alter.
Edition:
1st ed.
Copyright Note:
C.O. correspondence.
Imprint:
New York : Random House, c1995.
Description:
253 p.
Copyright Claimant:
on afterword excluding quotes; Robert Alter
Names:
Ariel Bloch
Chana Bloch (3 documents)
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Major trends in Jewish mysticism

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0004144888 / 1995-10-26
Date of Publication:
April 21, 1995
Date of Creation:
1995
Title:
Major trends in Jewish mysticism / Gershom Scholem ; foreword by Robert Alter.
Previous Registration:
Prev. reg. 1946.
Imprint:
New York : Schocken Books, c1995.
Description:
460 p.
Copyright Claimant:
on foreword; Robert Alter
Names:
Gershom Scholem (4 documents)
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Robert Alter (27 documents)
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The David story

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0005080204 / 1999-10-18
Date of Publication:
September 13, 1999
Date of Creation:
1998
Title:
The David story : a translation with commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel / Robert Alter.
Edition:
1st ed.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: English translation of 1 & 2 Samuel, commentary & introd.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton, c1999.
Description:
410 p.
Variant title:
The David story : a translation with commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter (27 documents)
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The transformative power of crisis

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0005194552 / 2000-04-21
Date of Publication:
January 28, 2000
Date of Creation:
1999
Title:
The transformative power of crisis : our journey to psychological healing and spiritual awakening / Robert M. Alter with Jane Alter.
Edition:
1st ed.
Imprint:
New York : ReganBooks, c2000.
Description:
268 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert M. Alter & Jane Alter
Names:
Robert M. Alter
Jane Alter

How long till my soul gets it right?

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0005268143 / 2001-05-25
Date of Publication:
April 19, 2001
Date of Creation:
2000
Title:
How long till my soul gets it right? / Robert M. Alter with Jane Alter.
Imprint:
New York : HarpercollinsPublishers, c2000.
Description:
272 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Jane Alter, Robert M. Alter
Names:
Jane Alter
Robert M. Alter

Canon and creativity

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0005292389 / 2000-10-23
Date of Publication:
October 1, 2000
Date of Creation:
1999
Title:
Canon and creativity : modern writing and the authority of scripture / Robert Alter.
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.
Description:
197 p.
Copyright Claimant:
Robert Alter
Names:
Robert Alter

The epic voice

Type of Work:
Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date:
TX0005526736 / 2002-05-09
Date of Publication:
March 8, 2002
Date of Creation:
2001
Title:
The epic voice : essays / by John Maier, Robert Alter, Stanley Lombardo ... [et al.] ; edited by Alan D. Hodder, Robert E. Meagher.
Basis of Claim:
New Matter: additions and editing.
Imprint:
Westport, CT : Praeger, 2002.
Description:
157 p.
Variant title:
The epic voice : essays
Copyright Claimant:
Alan D. Hodder & Robert E. Meagher
Names:
John Maier (3 documents)
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Robert Alter (27 documents)
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Alan D. Hodder
Robert E. Meagher (2 documents)
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