Alter, Robert
Pen of iron : American prose and the King James Bible / Robert Alter. - 198 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
America as a Scriptural culture -- Style in America and the King James version -- Moby-Dick : polyphonu -- Absalom! Absalom! : lexicon -- Seize the day : American amalgam -- The world through parataxis.
In this book, biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists--from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy--have drawn on the rich stylistic resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own strongly resonant styles and distinctive visions of reality. --from publisher description
0691128812 9780691128818
Bible. English --Versions--Authorized--History
Bible--In literature
American literature--History and criticism.
Bible and literature
PS166 / .A46 2010
Pen of iron : American prose and the King James Bible / Robert Alter. - 198 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
America as a Scriptural culture -- Style in America and the King James version -- Moby-Dick : polyphonu -- Absalom! Absalom! : lexicon -- Seize the day : American amalgam -- The world through parataxis.
In this book, biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists--from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy--have drawn on the rich stylistic resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own strongly resonant styles and distinctive visions of reality. --from publisher description
0691128812 9780691128818
Bible. English --Versions--Authorized--History
Bible--In literature
American literature--History and criticism.
Bible and literature
PS166 / .A46 2010