Kindred | Literary Precedents
The novel combines at least three species of story. The first and least remarkable are its elements of the Bildungsroman or initiation story: The excellent adventure in which one is put to extraordinary tests and is able to survive them, especially morally intact is a version of literary fantasy such as J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit (1939) and Ursula LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea (1968), as well as James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1884). The second story type is the time travel paradox, perhaps most...
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