10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «USURESS»
Discover the use of
usuress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
usuress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
As far as the plot is concerned, it consists mainly of the crime and punishment,
that is, of Raskol'nikov's feelings and thoughts before, during, and after the
murder of the old usuress and her sister. These thoughts and feelings result
eventually ...
N. S. Trubetzkoy, Anatoly Liberman, 1990
2
A history of Jewish literature. 9. Hasidism and Enlightment ...
Hence, w hat he, Raskol- nikov, "devised" (killing the old usuress) is no "crime,"
because through it he will, after all, be in a position to accomplish "thousands of
good deeds." Kovner was quite certain in his mind that he, too, was an ...
3
Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage
... and married women's separate estates and trusts, 71–73, 241n91; Portia's
agency, 71–82; Portia's ciphering and exactitude, 78–82, 92, 245n119, 247n151;
Portia's exercise of wit, will, and skill, 73–82; Portia as gift-giver/creditor/usuress,
10 ...
4
Language, Context, and the Imagination: Essays
But after his brutal ax-murder of the old usuress and her niece, Raskolnikov is
torn by guilt and needs a confidant. He goes to visit the girl in her lodgings. As the
conversation develops, they increasingly sense their need for each other.
Paul Friedrich, Anwar S. Dil, 1979
5
Zola before the Rougon-Macquart
He evidently based the episode of the usuress on Madame Bovary and made La
Mercier a female version of the moneylender, Lheureux. The imitation becomes
patent when we learn that Armande, like Emma, has a greyhound named ...
6
The plays ¬of ¬William ¬Shakspeare: In 21 volumes : with ...
From every' one of these it appears, that the merchants were the chief usuress of
the age. STEEVEN5. So, in The Choice qf Change, containing the triplicitie qs Di-
vinitie, Philqsbphie, and Poetrie, by S. R. Gent. 4to. 159S : " Three sortes of ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, 1803
7
Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations
(ii) The witch as a dangerous deviant Examples: dangerously powerful or rich —
Bakweri (Ardener, below), Mysore usuress (Epstein, 1959); dangerously
demanding — Essex in the sixteenth century (Macfarlane, below), Azande ...
For it was in his mind a goodly thing to pay a usuress with base coins. II It was
three days later, in the morning, that his captress said to the Magister Udal: '
Husband, it is time that I gave thee the bridal gift.' The magister, happy with a
bellyful of ...
She's hiding something from me, she's ashamed, the greedy creature, the
usuress! he thought. But I'll get to the bottom of this. “What about the ten thousand
?” he said. “What ten thousand?” she asked with anxious surprise. “Does Ilya Ilich
owe ...
10
Theists and Atheists: A Typology of Non-belief
After all, compare the suffering caused by the doctor's healing act with that of
Raskolnikov's murder of the old usuress. For the agent and in the moral
dimension these are incommensurable experiences: one experience gives the
agent (the ...
Thomas Steven Molnar, 1980
