Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible pdf

罗伯特·阿尔特 是美国加州大学伯克利分校的希伯来语和比较文学教授，自 1967 年以来一直在那里任教。他于 2018 年出版了他的希伯来圣经译本。Robert Alter 获得了英语学士学位（哥伦比亚大学， 1957 年），并获得哈佛大学比较文学硕士学位（1958 年）和博士学位（1962 年）。 他的职业生涯始于 Commentary 的作家，多年来一直担任特约编辑。 他写了二十三本书，最近因翻译整本希伯来圣经而闻名。 他的演讲主题从圣经情节到卡夫卡的现代主义和希伯来文学不等。 Alter 的一项重要贡献是将字体场景引入当代学术希伯来圣经研究。

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible pdf 罗伯特·阿尔特

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.