Volume : 6, Issue : 7, July - 2017
A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Judaism in George Eliots Daniel Deronda
Alireza Farahbakhsh, Zohreh Ahmadi
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<p> <span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The present article aims to offer a Foucauldian reading of George Eliot’s 1876 novel, <i>Daniel Deronda</i> according to Michel Foucault’s theories of power and discourse.</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Through analyzing Foucault’s discourse of power in <i>Daniel Deronda</i>, George Eliot’s view on the considerable subject of Jews and their religion is discussed. In other words, the concepts are explored in <i>Daniel Deronda</i> through the Christian and Jewish characters’ ideas about Jews and their religion. The present article reveals Jews’ limitations in the nineteenth century and their opposition with the essential problems through Jewish characters’ debate over the social issues in the novel. The article determines dominant powers operating within Jews through Daniel Deronda’s views on them and shows Ezra Cohen Mordecai’s resistance to these ideas.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination: none;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Alireza Farahbakhsh, Zohreh Ahmadi, A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Judaism in George Eliot¥s Daniel Deronda, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE‾7 | JULY -2017