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Author: Sarah Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1107136539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.
Author: Sarah Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-03-18
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781316501870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bildungsroman has been one of the most significant genres in Western literature since the eighteenth century. This volume, comprised of eleven chapters by leading experts in the field, offers original insights into how the novel of formation developed a strong tradition in Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and the USA. In demonstrating how the genre has been adopted and adapted in innovative forms of fiction, this volume also shows how a genre traditionally associated with the young white man has been used to give expression to the formative experiences of women, LGBTQ people, and post-colonial populations. Exploring the genre's emergence and evolution in numerous countries and across more than two hundred years, this volume provides unprecedented historical and geographical coverage and demonstrates that the Bildungsroman has a rich heritage and a bright future.
Author: Petru Golban
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018-09-30
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1527516768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book establishes a vector of methodology in the approach to a particular type of fictional discourse, namely the English Bildungsroman (the novel of identity formation). Its wide-ranging critical perspectives are also useful to anyone concerned with, first of all, European and English novelistic genres, but also to those interested in theoretical perspectives of modern fiction studies in general, as well as in certain aspects of Western literature as a developing tradition.
Author: Marc Redfield
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1501723170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.
Author: Lorna Ellis
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780838754115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Through analyses of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, The Female Quixote, Evelina, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, this genre study explores the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman fuses female power and autonomy with a conservative reintegration with society."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Todd Curtis Kontje
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781879751538
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An historical overview of criticism of the Bildungsroman from the late 18th century to the present. This book provides an historical overview of criticism of the Bildungsroman from the late 18th century to the present. Although written for scholars of the German novel it will also be of interest to scholars in other literatures.The genre of the Bildungsroman includes some of the greatest German novels yet its definition is considerably less obvious than imagined by the majority of scholars and students who use the term. The book rejects the notion that criticism seeks to elucidate the timeless values of classics, and moves toward the analysis of the cultural and historical factors that shape the reception of a text, genre, or author in successive generations of readers.
Author: Petru Golban
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1527540790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Metaphorically speaking, the nineteenth-century English Bildungsroman, dealing with the principle of identity formation, parallels Victorian fiction as a whole, revealing the completion of its own formation, which began in the eighteenth century. Significantly, the most important and popular Victorian novels are Bildungsromane, in which authors construct or rather reconstruct their own life experiences as formative processes. This book shows that the Bildungsroman has a development history, is a specific literary system, and consists of a thematic and narrative pattern. It details the entrance of this newly established fictional tradition into Victorian culture and literature through Carlyle’s threefold literary reception of the novel of formation and its subsequent flourishing and complexity. In this respect, a number of novelistic works are scrutinized, and each faces the question as to whether its thematic and narrative perspectives fit the pattern and shape of the Bildungsroman.
Author: Graham Bartram
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-05
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521483926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
Author: Gregory Castle
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813061351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is that of a young, alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he is and being true to that identity. This text examines such works as DH Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers' and James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'.
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0763679437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.
