MIDRASH, MYTH, AND PROPHECY: GEORGE ELIOT'S REINTERPRETATION OF BIBLICAL STORIES

Through a reading of Daniel Deronda I will offer the notion of midrash as a way of reading which works within an old and very strong tradition on the one hand, and gestures continuously towards opennes and innovationon the other. In her final novel, Eliot's reinterpretations of Biblical myth sp...

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Main Author: Law-Vilijoen, Bronwyn (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press 1997
In: Literature and theology
Year: 1997, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 80-92
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