SOURCE: Redfield, Marc. “The Phantom Bildungsroman.” In Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman, pp. 38-62. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996.
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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