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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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Theodore Dreiser, Simile, Prose, Novelist, Seize the Day (novel), Supplication, Ahab, Books of Kings, Moby-Dick, Poetry, William Shakespeare, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Assonance, Biblical poetry, Monomania, Puritans, Saul Bellow, Slavery, Homily, Aeschylus, Old Testament, Psalms, Black Boy, Spirituality, Bathsheba, Dramatic monologue, Literature, Romanticism, Bible, Gimpel the Fool, Gottfried Benn, Writing, Priestly Blessing, Yiddish, Warfare, The Wretched of the Earth, Poetic diction, Antithesis, All the Pretty Horses (novel), Parody, Huckleberry Finn, Biblical Hebrew, Writer, Belial, English poetry, Primeval history, Metonymy, William Tyndale, Norman Manea, Epic poetry, Garry Wills, Mark Twain, Literary fiction, Novel, Ridicule, Act of Violence, Laurence Sterne, Jude the Obscure, Cormac McCarthy, Proverb, Narrative, The Other Hand, The Realist, Synecdoche, Blank verse, Biblical authority, Diction, Allusion, Absalom, Parataxis