Word: deronda
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There comes a terrible moment to many souls," George Eliot wrote in Daniel Deronda, "when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their lives." Tell me about it. But something more fundamental and revealing has happened since Sept. 11 as well. For many years--12 since the toppling of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet threat; 27 since Watergate, depending on how one is counting--the country has been living outside history. By this I mean living not only with little...
There is no scarcity of books about Jews in English literature. Critics feel obliged to attack English literature for having produced Shylock and Fagin or to defend it for the tolerant portrayal of Daniel Deronda. There are encylopedic lists of all the Jews who have appeared on the printed page and detailed, psychoanalytic polemics about whether or not Dickens was really anti semitic. Yet, until the appearance of Edgar Rosenberg's study, From Shylock to Svengali: Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction, no one had bothered to ask the important questions: why the picture of the villanious Jew has remained constant...
...said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda was Hep, a cry of the Crusaders, derived from the Latin for "Jerusalem is destroyed...
...change in George Eliot's style and methods as shown by a comparison between Adam Bede and Daniel Deronda...
...FRESHMAN says he always considered George Eliot's best works, "Daniel Deronda" and "Helen's Babies." - Round Table...