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bildungsroman

Noun

Meaning

bildungsroman (plural bildungsromans or bildungsromane)

A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.

Bildungsroman (plural Bildungsromans or Bildungsromane)

Alternative letter-case form of bildungsroman

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Examples

“A classic artistic bildungsroman and a retort to the genre, a novel that shows how love and marriage can simultaneously offer inspiration and encumbrance.” Source: Internet

Felix Salten 's Bambi (1923) is a Bildungsroman — a story of a protagonist 's coming-of-age — cast in the form of a fable. Source: Internet

As a " bildungsroman of the cybernetic age," Galvan maintains, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? follows one person's gradual acceptance of the new reality. Source: Internet

In a Bildungsroman, the goal is maturity, and the protagonist achieves it gradually and with difficulty. Source: Internet

‘Califórnia’ Dreaming Boosts Brazilian Bildungsroman Marina Person brings 1984’s sights and sounds to the screen BY SEAN EGAN “You kind of plan everything,” says Marina Person, a Brazilian writer/ director, on independent filmmaking. Source: Internet

“Is the choice of a writer-protagonist in a bildungsroman too facile and predictable?” a professor asks in the book’s opening pages, in the midst of a brutal critique of the narrator’s first workshop submission. Source: Internet

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