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Author : Sarah Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107136533
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
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316501876
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
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527516762
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 : Tobias Boes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801465215
The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders," identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation. In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels—Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann's The Epigones, Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus among them—that have always been felt to be particularly "German" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature.
Author : Ellen McWilliams
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754660273
In her study of Margaret Atwood, Ellen McWilliams explores how the Bildungsroman has been appropriated by women writers in the second half of the twentieth century. Early works by Atwood are placed in dialogue with more recent novels, thus furthering our
Author : Marc Redfield
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501723179
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 : Petru Golban
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527540798
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 : Gregory Castle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bildungsromans, English
ISBN : 0813061350
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 : Frederick Amrine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108477680
A fresh reading of the Willhelm Meister novels that dismisses the notion of the Bildungsroman to reveal unities between the texts.
Author : Todd Curtis Kontje
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1879751534
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 : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521483921
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 : F. Abiola Irele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827706
Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in Arabic. They highlight the themes and styles of the African novel through an examination of the works that have either attained canonical status - an entire chapter is devoted to the work of Chinua Achebe - or can be expected to do so. Including a guide to further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point for students of African and world literatures.
Author : Franco Moretti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bildungsromans
ISBN : OCLC:1263580629
Author : Henry Fielding,Thomas Roscoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : England
ISBN : UCAL:B4107965
Author : Helena Feder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317146414
Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman draws on work by Kinji Imanishi, Frans de Waal, and other biologists to create an interdisciplinary, materialist notion of culture for ecocritical analysis. In this timely intervention, Feder examines the humanist idea of culture by taking a fresh look at the stories it explicitly tells about itself. These stories fall into the genre of the Bildungsroman, the tale of individual acculturation that participates in the myth of its complete separation from and opposition to nature which, Feder argues, is culture’s own origin story. Moving from Voltaire’s Candide to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, the book dramatizes humanism’s own awareness of the fallacy of this foundational binary. In the final chapters, Feder examines the discourse of animality at work in this narrative as a humanist fantasy about empathy, one that paradoxically excludes other animals from the ethical community to justify the continued domination of both human and nonhuman others.