Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman
(Part of the Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801478030
ISBN13:9780801478031
Release Date:November 2012
Publisher:Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
Length:214 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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