Title
The World Through Parataxis
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Includes stylistic analysis of The Sun Also Rises and “The Undefeated,” contending that Hemingway was greatly influenced by paratactical constructions found in the Bible. Also addresses the similar use of parataxis found in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (2004) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), concluding that “something of the old dynamic stubbornly persists” as writers continue to draw on the rich stylistic resources of the Bible despite our everchanging culture.
Published in
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible
Date
2010
Pages
146-183
COinS
Citation
Alter, Robert. “The World Through Parataxis.” In Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible, 146-83. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010.