The Colonial Bildungsroman: The Story of an African Farm and the Ghost of Goethe.

This essay examines the plot structure, characterization, and figurative language of Olive schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, suggesting that the novel's assimilation of an uneven and markedly colonial temporality unsettles the inherited formal dictates of the goethean bildungsroman. Like oth...

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Publicado en:	Victorian Studies Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 407 - 431
Autor principal:	Esty, Jed
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	Indiana University Press Spring2007
Materias:	Story of an African Farm, The (Book : Schreiner) Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 Story plots Literary characters Bildungsromans Imperialism Victorian (Literary period)
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