@Book{601367316,
author="Alter, Robert",
title="Pen of iron: American prose and the King James Bible",
year="2010",
publisher="Princeton Univ. Press",
address="Princeton, N.J. [u.a.]",
keywords="Versions; Authorized; History; In literature; Bible and literature; American literature; History and criticism; Englisch; {\"U}bersetzung; Bibel; Rezeption; USA; Prosa; Geschichte; BibleEnglishVersionsAuthorizedInfluence; BibleIn literature; American literatureHistory and criticism",
contents="America as a Scriptural cultureStyle in America and the King James version -- Moby-Dick : polyphonu -- Absalom! Absalom! : lexicon -- Seize the day : American amalgam -- The world through parataxis.",
abstract="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",
note="Robert Alter",
note="Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9780691128818",
language="English"
}