Geoffrey H Hartman, Sanford Budick (Editors) Midrash and Literature. Yale University Press, 1986. First printing. 0300034539 xvii/412 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear.  Contents:  "The Struggle for the Text" by Geoffrey H. Hartman; "Inner Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israel" by Michael Fishbane; "The Nature of the Aggadah" by Joseph Heinemann; "The Freedom and Restraint of Haggadah" by Judah Goldin; "Two Introductions to Midrash" by James L. Kugel; "Midrash and the the Language of Exegesis: A Study of Vayikra Rabbah, Chapter 1" by David Stern; "Midrash and the Dawn of Kabbalah" by Joseph Dan; "Infinities of the Torah in Kabbalah" by Moshe Idel; "Sacred Language and Open Text" by Betty Roitman; "The Plain Sense of Things" by Frank Kermode;  "Milton and the Scene of Interpretation: From Typology toward Midrash" by Sanford Budick; "The Hermeneutic Quest in Robinson Crusoe" by Harold Fisch; "Romanticism and the Internalization of Scripture" by Joshua Wilner; "The Model of Midrash and Borges's Interpretative Tales and Essays" by Myrna Solotorevsky; "Kafka's Parables" by Jill Robbins; "Midrash and Narrative: Agnon's "Agunot"" by Gershon Shaked; "Shibboleth" by Jacques Derrida; "The Key" by Edmond Jabes.