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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (198 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400834358
  • 140083435X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pen of iron.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/3822 22
LOC classification:
  • PS166 .A46 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
America as a Scriptural culture -- Style in America and the King James version -- Moby-Dick : polyphony -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

America as a Scriptural culture -- Style in America and the King James version -- Moby-Dick : polyphony -- 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.

Print version record.