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What is a bildungsroman?

What is a bildungsroman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
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Penelope is closer in sensibility to an anodyne sitcom than a precocious bildungsroman.
But to see in Knausgaard's epic bildungsroman the evil of banality is to miss the point.
A magisterially written war bildungsroman, it narrated the coming-of-age of an aristocratic boy in occupied Veneto after the 1917 Battle of Caporetto.
Do genres have typical scripts, such as rescue for the adventure novel, or going to school for the Bildungsroman, or seduction for the romance?
Jackie French has successfully combined a saga of survival with a centuries old coming of age bildungsroman.
The later version is a classic bildungsroman.

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