TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alter,Robert
TI  - Pen of iron: American prose and the King James Bible 
SN  - 0691128812 (hardcover : alk. paper)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - In literature
KW  - English
KW  - Versions
KW  - Authorized
KW  - Influence
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Bible and literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -