New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman:
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Main Author: Summerfield, Giovanna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Continuum ©2010
Series:Continuum literary studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Mastery and apprenticeship(s): departing from Goethe's Turm -- The British master: Defoe, Dickens and Kipling -- The French fellow craft: from Voltaire to Stendhal -- The Italian apprentice: Foscolo and Collodi -- From bildungsroman to bildungsreise -- The dissolution of gendered plots: Wilhelm Meister and the beautiful soul -- Female developments in the nineteenth century: Neera's Teresa, Lydia and L'Indomani, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre -- Female developments in the twentieth century: Sibilla Aleramo's Una donna, Susanna Tamaro's Va dove ti porta il cuore, Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- The bildungsroman as spectrum
New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman reflects the change in direction of research on the Bildungsroman, focusing on more psychological, authorial and feminist contents. Departing from the father of the prototype of the genre, Goethe, the authors trace imperative pathways to its French, British, and Italian counterparts, examining spiritual and female Bildungsromane. A wide-ranging analysis provides fresh insights into the genre through comparative analyses of Bildungsromane both diatopically and diachronically, while critical analysis of novels such as Voltaires Candide, Charlotte B.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (200 pages)
ISBN:0826434304
1441167110
9780826434302
9781441167118

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