Pen of iron
Subtitle: American prose and the King James Bible
By: Robert Alter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780691128818
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: America as a Scriptural culture; title: Style in America and the King James version; title: Moby-Dick : polyphonu; title: Absalom! Absalom! : lexicon; title: Seize the day : American amalgam; title: The world through parataxis.