The Modern Language Review, July 1st, 2001
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 Bildungsroman. Arguing that the fundamental structure of key examples of the genre is circular, not linear, Michael Minden convincingly elaborates a theory of the centrality of complementary patterns of incest/desire and inheritance, in novels which are about subjectivity and the aesthetic. In what he acknowledges to b...
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