Pen of iron : American prose and the King James Bible / Robert Alter.

By: Alter, Robert [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Oxford ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010 Description: 198 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691128812 (hardcover : alkaline paper)Subject(s): Bible. English -- Versions -- Authorized -- History | Bible -- In literature | American literature -- History and criticism | Bible and literatureLOC classification: PS166 .A46 2010
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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
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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