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Pen of Iron
Robert Alter
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
How the King James Bible has influenced the style of the American novel from Melville to Cormac McCarthy
The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning—and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed 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. Showing the radically different manners in which the words, idioms, syntax, and cadences of this Bible are woven into Moby-Dick, Absalom, Absalom!, The Sun Also Rises, Seize the Day, Gilead, and The Road, Alter reveals the wide variety of stylistic and imaginative possibilities that American novelists have found in Scripture. At the same time, Alter demonstrates the importance of looking closely at the style of literary works, making the case that style is not merely an aesthetic phenomenon but is the very medium through which writers conceive their worlds.
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Primeval history, Moby-Dick, Writing, Act of Violence, Mark Twain, The Wretched of the Earth, Ahab, Literary fiction, The Other Hand, Warfare, Puritans, Black Boy, Biblical authority, Norman Manea, Cormac McCarthy, Parody, Dramatic monologue, Proverb, Gottfried Benn, Old Testament, Supplication, Psalms, Ridicule, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, William Tyndale, Laurence Sterne, Literature, All the Pretty Horses (novel), Huckleberry Finn, Novel, Prose, Yiddish, Aeschylus, Poetic diction, Synecdoche, Priestly Blessing, Absalom, English poetry, Metonymy, Romanticism, Garry Wills, Spirituality, Blank verse, Poetry, Allusion, Bible, Belial, Parataxis, Biblical Hebrew, Writer, Diction, Homily, Saul Bellow, Slavery, Novelist, Gimpel the Fool, Assonance, Monomania, Antithesis, Biblical poetry, Epic poetry, Narrative, Jude the Obscure, Simile, Theodore Dreiser, William Shakespeare, Bathsheba, Books of Kings, Seize the Day (novel), The Realist