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The role of the Bible in American culture has been abundantly discussed in scholarship, but this volume looks at how the King James Version, itself a formidable stylistic achievement, became a vital & distinctive element in at leat one line of prose style in the American novel from Melville to the present.Alter, Robert is the author of 'Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible', published 2010 under ISBN 9780691128818 and ISBN 0691128812.
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