| Penelope is closer in sensibility to an anodyne sitcom than a precocious bildungsroman. |
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| But to see in Knausgaard's epic bildungsroman the evil of banality is to miss the point. |
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| A common variation of the bildungsroman is the Künstlerroman, a novel dealing with the formative years of an artist. |
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| The novel feels like it teeters between a bildungsroman and a travel story, never quite satisfying either urge. |
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| Jackie French has successfully combined a saga of survival with a centuries old coming of age bildungsroman. |
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| The later version is a classic bildungsroman. |
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| A magisterially written war bildungsroman, it narrated the coming-of-age of an aristocratic boy in occupied Veneto after the 1917 Battle of Caporetto. |
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| Although Wieland's novels were forerunners of the bildungsroman, they missed the temper of the time in Germany by placing their protagonists in a fictitious Spain or ancient Greece rather than in 18th-century Germany. |
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| The Mouse and His Child is a bildungsroman, a zoological pilgrim's progress complete with murderous rats, prognosticating frogs and an muskrat that quotes Aquinas. |
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| Do genres have typical scripts, such as rescue for the adventure novel, or going to school for the Bildungsroman, or seduction for the romance? |
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| Another problem with the text is Stover's desire to locate the four primary works in the literary tradition of the Bildungsroman. |
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| For instance, he discusses Goethe's Wilhelm Meister as a Bildungsroman in The Dialogic Imagination. |
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| There is no doubt this is a moral tale, a Bildungsroman for the senior citizen. |
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| Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, which recounts the first nineteen years of the character of Jane Eyre, in the first-person voice. |
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| The critics have spoken of a picaresque novel or even of a Bildungsroman, without coming down unequivocally on either classification. |
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| It is this notion of growth as a movement out of and beyond the private space of childhood that the Bildungsroman indexes. |
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| The first half of the novel is certainly indebted to the Bildungsroman. |
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| Die Zauberflöte also contributed to Romanticism's self-fashioning, from the combination it offers of the fantastical, diabolical, ethical, metaphysical, and of elements taken from the Bildungsroman. |
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| The poems in his Bildungsroman 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre', and in particular the character of Mignon, appealed to the imagination of all the great lieder composers. |
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| Beatty fashions Gunnar's Bildungsroman with an eye toward deconstructing the race man, but also as a way to dismantle configurations of hypersexual black masculinity. |
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