John Fowles
How do I use the word ‘zeitgeist’ in a sentence?
Hi, I’m taking an English Literature exam tomorrow and today our class was given a list of words which would be good to use in our essays.
This list included ‘zeitgeist’ which means the same as ‘spirit of the age’. As in “John Fowles captures the spirit of the [Victorian] age through his pastiche of a Victorian novel”
But “Fowles captures the zeitgeist through his pastiche of a Victorian novel” frankly sounds ridiculous. How WOULD I use it in a sentence?
I think it’s a great word and I’d like to use it instead of ‘spirit of the age’ should the opportunity should arise; however, I don’t want to use it incorrectly.
Can anyone help?
It’s a grand word. One of the things I’d suggest is to write a sentence using the phrase “spirit of the age, ” and then rewrite it using “zeitgeist” in the same place.
The second example you used above might do well if you write it:
“Fowles captured the Victorian zeitgeist through his pastiche…”
I hope that helps and good luck on the exam.
Book Review: The Collector by John Fowles
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Beethoven: Moonlight, Waldstein, Appassionata / Ashkenazy (Penguin Music Classics Series) $11.98 This troika of piano sonatas shows off some of Beethoven’s most crystalline writing: from the impressionistic, sensual Moonlight to the somewhat mournful Appassionata to the wonderful, intricate aural shoving match of Waldstein. On the grounds of their sheer power, these three took novelist and erstwhile liner notician John Fowles by quiet storm. He writes in his notes to the CD that he’s easily b… |
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THE COLLECTOR – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK Music from the 1965 film… |
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Breakthrough 1984 The Way International/Victory Productions audio cassette tape. [VPBT104]. SONGS: Breakthrough, Trinity is Idolatry, Same Old Lie, One by One, Many Roads, Body Soul and Spirit, Military Man, Sold Out, and, Our Best Gets Better…. |
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Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life $2.99 … |
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman [VHS] $2.00 Writer Harold Pinter (Betrayal) and director Karel Reisz (Isadora) take an experimental spin with John Fowles’s magnificent novel set in Victorian England, and come up with something puzzling. Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the forbidden lovers in Fowles’s story, but in a parallel story line they also play contemporary actors performing those characters in a movie production and having an affa… |
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Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life $9.49 … |
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman $12.65 Writer Harold Pinter (Betrayal) and director Karel Reisz (Isadora) take an experimental spin with John Fowles’s magnificent novel set in Victorian England, and come up with something puzzling. Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the forbidden lovers in Fowles’s story, but in a parallel story line they also play contemporary actors performing those characters in a movie production and having an affa… |
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The Collector $5.61 As one of the greatest directors of Hollywood’s golden age, William Wyler had a long and distinguished roster of films to his credit, among them a number of classics (including Wuthering Heights and The Heiress) that rank among the finest literary adaptations to emerge from the studio system. Near the end of his career, Wyler focused his veteran skills on John Fowles’s novel The Collector, and it… |
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The Collector (Back Bay Books) $5.45 The Collector (1963) is disturbing, engrossing, unforgettable — the story of an obsessive young man and the girl he kidnaps and holds prisoner in his cellar…. |
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