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The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse / Martin Swales.

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Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an awareness of the tradition from which it arose. Professor Swales concentrates on the roles of plot, ch...

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Main Author: Swales, Martin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1978]
Series:Princeton essays in literature.
Subjects:
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
Psychological fiction, German > History and criticism.
German fiction > History and criticism.
Bildungsromans.
German fiction.
Psychological fiction, German.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. The Bildungsroman as a Genre
  • II. Wieland: Agathon (1767)
  • III. Goethe: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-1796)
  • IV. Stifter: Indian Summer (1857)
  • V. Keller: Green Henry (1879-1880)
  • VI. Mann: The Magic Mountain (1924)
  • VII. Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1943)
  • VIII. Conclusion
  • Excursus: The Bildungsroman as a Taxonomic Genre
  • Index.

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