Crossword clues for bildungsroman
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1910, from German Bildungsroman, from Bildung "education, formation, growth" (from Bild "picture, image, figure;" Old High German bilade) + roman "novel" (see romance). A novel set in the formative years, or the time of spiritual education, of the main character.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of bildungsroman English)
Wikipedia
In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story (though it may also be known as a subset of the coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.
Usage examples of "bildungsroman".
The German word Bildungsroman is often used to describe the novel of education, the story of a person's growth to maturity.
Invisible Man is a Bildungsroman, and the narrator changes a good deal during the course of the story.
Discuss Invisible Man as a bildungsroman, the story of the education of a young man.
Books like James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Sons and Lovers are bildungsromans--novels that trace the development and growth of the main character.
Books like James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Sons and Lovers are bildungsromans novels that trace the development and growth of the main character.
Murakami's previous stories, Wind-Up Bird is part detective story, part Bildungsroman, part fairy tale, part science-fiction-meets-Lewis Carroll.
I'm familiar with the conventions of the rites of passage, I know what the literary term bildungsroman means, I realise that it's inevitable that I'll look back at things that happened in my youth and give a wry, knowing smile.
It now bore the title Stephen Hero, and was a conventional Bildungsroman a novel about a young man's moral and psychological development.