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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