Bildungsromans

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Name (Hebrew)
רומן חניכה
Name (Latin)
Bildungsromans
Name (Arabic)
روايات التشكيل
Other forms of name
Apprenticeship novels
Bildungsroman
Bildungsromane
Coming-of-age novels
Entwicklungsromane
Erziehungsromane
See Also From tracing topical name
Fiction
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q223945
Library of congress: sh2003003087
Sources of Information
  • Web. 3(Bildingsroman, pl. Bildungsromane or Bildungsromans)
  • Random House dict.(Bildingsroman, pl. Bildungsromans or Bildungsromane)
  • Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, Etc.(Bildungsromans)
  • Sears List of Subject Headings(Bildungsromans)
  • Encyc. Britannica(Bildungsroman ... sometimes called an Entwicklungsroman ("novel of character development"))
  • Cuddon. Dict. of lit. terms(Bildungsroman same as Erziehungsroman)
  • Holman. Handbk. to literature(Apprenticeship novel now usually called a Bildungsroman; Bildungsroman includes Erziehungsroman, Entwicklungsroman and Kunstlerroman; except for Kunstlerroman, distinctions lost in English & Amer. criticism)
  • Web site Novelguide, Oct. 10, 2003(review of Bless Me, Ultima: "the coming-of-age novel is also known as the Bildungsroman")

Wikipedia description:

In literary criticism, a bildungsroman is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist as they progress from childhood to adulthood (coming of age). The term comes from the German words Bildung ('formation' or 'education') and Roman ('novel').

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