Formative fictions : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / Tobias Boes.

The "Bildungsroman", or "novel of formation, " has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author:	Boes, Tobias, 1976- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2012. Cornell University Library, 2012.
Series:	Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:	Bildungsromans > History and criticism. German fiction > History and criticism. European fiction > History and criticism. Nationalism and literature. City and town life in literature. Comparative literature > German and European. Comparative literature > European and German. Bildungsromans. European fiction. German fiction. Criticism, interpretation, etc.