Difference between revisions of "The Story of an African Farm (1883)"

Revision as of 12:40, 6 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
• why recapitulating bildung that has already happened?
• 139 anticipating lacan mirror stage/self awareness: what were Victorian understandings of this part of childhood dev?
• 140-1 religious print culture: Bible, Jeremy Taylor, Wesley
• 143 book flinging again
• 150 almost a climate change metaphor
• 153 Darwinian faith
• 160 Macbeth again
• 169 art after stranger's fable
• 170 another recursion into Waldo's past, this time diegetic
• 174 Illustrated London News on Gregory's wall
• 186-7 gender (and Robbin island, later mandelams prison)
• 191 Goethe
• 216-17 books/evolution/deep time
• 252 again Waldo's experienced narrated in retrospect through vehicle of letter (though not diegetically offset like Gregory's)
• 253 clerk lighting his pipe with book paper
• 276 Book throwing again, then Shakespeare