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Bildungsroman

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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Bildungsroman Information
655 words, approx. 2 pages
A Bildungsroman (IPA: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.roˌmaːn]/, German: "novel of self-cultivation") is a novelistic form that concentrates on the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the protagonist usually from childhood to maturity....


News and Journals
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German Quarterly
Phantom Formations. Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman
10/01/2000: 716 words, approx. 2 pages
Redfield, Marc. Phantom Formations. Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. 220pp. $35.00 hardcover. For Redfield the Bildungsroman has an exemplary status in exhibiting-and thus exposing-the claim to a referential basis of literature. For insofar as the content of a narrative...
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The Modern Language Review
The German Bildungsroman: Incest and Inheritance.(Review)
07/01/2001: 859 words, approx. 3 pages
The German Bildungsroman: Incest and Inheritance. By MICHAEL MINDEN. (Cambridge Studies in German) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 291 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. This important and original book has, in a way, taken the Bildung out of...
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AP News
Nobel literature prize excerpts
10/11/2007: 464 words, approx. 2 pages
Excerpts from the Swedish Academy's citation awarding the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature to Doris Lessing:___The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2007 is awarded to the British writer Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected...
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The New York Observer
That\'d5s My Dean St.! Brooklyn Native Goes Home, Sniffs
1/28/2007: 1,211 words, approx. 4 pages
In the wake of Boerum Hill’s “It”-ification, my father and I recently decided to ring the doorbell of our old house on Dean Street. The visit was odd for several reasons, the first being that the nice couple living in the house initially thought that...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Marc Redfield
12,282 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, Redfield studies the concept of Bildung and the paradoxes of literary Bildung, maintaining that the complications of the Bildungsroman genre stem from its aesthetic ideology.
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Critical Essay by Todd Kontje
10,532 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Kontje traces the origins of Bildungsroman theory, and the impact and critical reception of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.
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Critical Essay by Lorna Ellis
10,189 words, approx. 34 pages
In the following essay, Ellis contends that Jane Eyre, along with Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Betsy Thoughtless, conforms to the female Bildungsroman genre by presenting a heroine who manages to develop and grow while upholding the expectations of society. In addition, Ellis remarks that Jane Eyre is notable for Jane's profound sense of self, which paves the way for later non-Bildungsroman novels in which the heroine spurns societal conventions.
 


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