Bildungsroman

If nothing else, I would like to determine for myself whether Demanski's view of the possibilities of the modified bildungsroman is a sound one or not. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Morally he scarcely improves over the course of the novel I've seen it described as a bildungsroman, but I'm not convinced Gully develops enough to merit that. ❋ Tim Stretton (2009)

A bildungsroman is defined as “a novel which traces the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from (usually) childhood to maturity. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What are the chances of running into the word bildungsroman twice in one crapometer? ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

On "Spirited Away"--Miyazaki is a master of the female bildungsroman, which is not a common genre. ❋ Fresca (2009)

The German word bildungsroman is used to describe what we English-speakers know as a ❋ Lilit Marcus (2010)

A bildungsroman is the Love and Lust study of the growth of a youthful character and thus The World According to Garp is concerned it applies to Irving's novel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From this description we understand that McKenzie is writing a variation of the "bildungsroman" (the coming-of-age novel), and that she is taking something of a risk in experimenting with the form. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cooking, in other words, was a kind of bildungsroman for civilization itself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the '' bildungsroman '', the protagonist must deal with adversity and conflict, ❋ Unknown (2008)

Every fiction is in some genre or other, whether it be that of the Harlequin romance, the Victorian Realist novel, the bildungsroman, the picaresque, the fairy tale, the club story, or simply the novel. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

On the one hand, Peter Markus's Bob, or Man on Boat is a welcome departure from most debut novels in that it is not some form of bildungsroman, or more loosely a disguised memoir, a perfunctorily fictionalized version of the author's youthful experiences (more precisely, of the author's experience of youth). ❋ Unknown (2010)

It becomes just another version of a bildungsroman, an opportunity for its female author/protagonist to "express" herself and her newly-found sense of direction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the typical bildungsroman, we closely follow the major events of a young person's life and see how they form the adult she becomes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It has a sad half-million-year-old polymorphous made person named Siob trying to make societies more resilient, and coming-of-age story of a teenager with three bodies on a planet with very different notions of gender, economics, and politics than ours, in the midst of a revolutionary social crisis; so its like two contemporaneous bildungsroman on very different time scales. ❋ Unknown (2009)