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Beloved
Beloved, a novel by Toni Morrison (1987), set in 1873 in America. The narrative technique is deliberately non-linear and complex, the language richly poetic and suffused with biblical references. Sethe, a former slave, lives with her daughter Denver and the ghost of her dead baby girl. The book opens with the unexpected arrival of Paul D., one of the five men with whom Sethe had formerly been enslaved at Sweet Home, a Kentucky farm. Paul D. moves in, and as they face the past together, their tragic story unfolds. Meanwhile, an uncanny girl called Beloved comes to live with them. It emerges that Beloved is an incarnation of the daughter Sethe had murdered, in a fit of hysteria, in order to prevent their being torn apart. In three sections of poetry, the meaning of ‘Beloved’ is explored; the word transcends its character, and becomes a symbol for all dead and suffering slaves. The book is dedicated to ‘Sixty Million and more’. See also slavery, literature of.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Beloved." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Beloved." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Beloved.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Beloved." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Beloved.html |
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beloved An adjective applied both to children (1 Cor. 4: 17) and to adult Christians (1 Pet. 2: 11) and even to Christ (Eph. 1: 6, though there the Greek uses the perfect passive participle of the verb as a noun).The ‘Beloved Disciple’ is mentioned in the gospel of John as especially close to Jesus (13: 23–5) and as the author of the gospel (21: 24). He has traditionally been regarded as John the disciple, but the identification is not made in the gospel.
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W. R. F. BROWNING. "beloved." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. W. R. F. BROWNING. "beloved." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-beloved.html W. R. F. BROWNING. "beloved." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-beloved.html |
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be·lov·ed / biˈləv(i)d/ • adj. dearly loved. ∎ (beloved by/of) very popular with or much used by a specified set of people: being so close, the mountain hut is beloved of families on a day's outing. • n. a much loved person: he watched his beloved. |
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"beloved." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "beloved." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-beloved.html "beloved." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-beloved.html |
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T. F. HOAD. "beloved." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "beloved." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-beloved.html T. F. HOAD. "beloved." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-beloved.html |
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•avid • unenvied • David
•livid, vivid
•ivied • Ovid • bovid
•beloved, Dyfed
•fervid, perfervid
•languid • equid
•illiquid, liquid
•frenzied • palsied
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"beloved." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "beloved." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-beloved.html "beloved." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-beloved.html |
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