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

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (198 pages)
	English language
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject	Bible. English -- Versions -- Authorized -- Influence.
	Bible.
	Bible -- In literature.
	American literature -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
	Bible and literature.
	Bible and literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Alter, Robert. Pen of iron. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691128818 (DLC) 2009022408 (OCoLC)373474943
ISBN	9781400834358 electronic book
	140083435X electronic book
	9780691128818
	0691128812
	1282457934
	9781282457935