Difference between revisions of "The Story of an African Farm (1883)"
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* 36-8: The overseer's silver hunting watch, the way it invokes religion fate and history for the boy. Time and apocalypse | * 36-8: The overseer's silver hunting watch, the way it invokes religion fate and history for the boy. Time and apocalypse | ||
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* Kaffir: black South Africans (derogatory now) | * Kaffir: black South Africans (derogatory now) | ||
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* 130 a more visceral meditation on the wounds of childhood but reminiscent of Mill on the Floss | * 130 a more visceral meditation on the wounds of childhood but reminiscent of Mill on the Floss | ||
* 137 time and internal seasons | * 137 time and internal seasons | ||
| − | + | * Also a metafictive moment indicating how the narrative is structured like in ch 5 | |
Revision as of 14:22, 5 February 2017
- 36-8: The overseer's silver hunting watch, the way it invokes religion fate and history for the boy. Time and apocalypse
- Time reinvoked on 137 at start of part 2
- Kaffir: black South Africans (derogatory now)
- Kraal: enclosure outbuilding for livestock
- Kopje: small hill
- 40 Waldo's sacrifice
- 45-6 as in Mill the opposition between education and agrarian work even in childrens' understanding
- 66 Waldo reading bible
- Ch 5 strange/interesting structure
- 76 lyndall's books/bonaparte's phony teaching
- 93 Em swearing she will help the weak against the strong
- 102 Waldo's rejection of god and the mutual incomphrehensibility of experience/ feeling
- 103 Ghosts and guilt like hamlet or lady m then Macb at chapter end
- 109 Waldo reading abt property rights
- 114 Tant throws book at Waldo like John reed in jane eyre
- 119-20 deep time
- 130 a more visceral meditation on the wounds of childhood but reminiscent of Mill on the Floss
- 137 time and internal seasons
- Also a metafictive moment indicating how the narrative is structured like in ch 5
