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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Main Author:	Boes, Tobias, 1976-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : 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.