Pen of iron : American prose and the King James Bible / Robert Alter.
Pen of iron : American prose and the King James Bible / Robert Alter.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
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N810.93822/1
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English
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198 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
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Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c2010.
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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 distinc...
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Pen of iron : American prose and the King James Bible / Robert Alter.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2010.
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N810.93822/1
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74VKOlQerl2Z
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ISBN
0691128812 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691128818 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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810.93822
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991022667669702626
