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Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman
Gregory Castle
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Description for Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and shaping, and the first Bildungsromane in 18th-century Germany focused on the hero's self-formation. Modernists such as Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf adopted and reinvigorated the Bildungsroman form as a means of telling stories about longing and transition. With this first major study of the historical context of ... Read more
The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and shaping, and the first Bildungsromane in 18th-century Germany focused on the hero's self-formation. Modernists such as Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf adopted and reinvigorated the Bildungsroman form as a means of telling stories about longing and transition. With this first major study of the historical context of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813061351
SKU
V9780813061351
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About Gregory Castle
Gregory Castle is associate professor of English at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of Modernism and the Celtic Revival and the editor of Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology.
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