Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible

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.

Author(s): Robert Alter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-02-28
Pages: 208
Categories: Bibles