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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Bildungsroman"”.
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El bildungsroman en el Caribe hispano
This dissertation examines the bildungsroman genre in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. A close examination of the development of this genre demonstrates that it has ideological implications that link the young protagonists’ development with that of the nation. The authors on whom I …
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Cuerpo, mujer y nación: el Bildungsroman posrevolucionario mexicano
… are a central theme in the narratives of these Bildungsromane. Furthermore, they constitute a way of resistance against the masculinizing discourse in post war literature. On the other hand, they are an important tool to observe the circumstances around marginal groups, as well as excluded and …
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Troubled Formations Sexuality and the Irish Catholic Bildungsroman, 1916-1965
… the historical development of the Irish Catholic bildungsroman from James Joyce to Edna O ’Brien and John McGahern. Specifically, this study is focused on the construction of sexuality in this genre. The novels are therefore read in conjunction with those d iscourses of sexuality that were …
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The Androgynous Tomboy: Adolescent Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman
… Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman</em> is an analysis of the adolescent, specifically, of the young tomboy characters central to three Bildungsroman texts set in the American South during the twentieth century: Carson McCullers' <em>The Member of the Wedding</em> …
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Mira Muchacha: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
<p>This thesis explores how the Bildungsroman’s traditional narrative transforms into a window to the Latinx experience in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X. The traditional Bildungsroman features white, male, and European protagonists, according to Louis F. Caton in “Romantic Struggles: The …
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The country girls trilogy: la formulación del bildungsroman femenino en Irlanda
… literario de la mencionada trilogia en forma de Bildungsroman, tomando como instrumentos teoricos epistemologias feministas descontrucionistas que revelan el carácter innovador de la obra y la ausencia de la clasificaciones y terminos que correspondan adecuadamente al tipo de literatura que …
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
… incorporates the humanist literary genre of the Bildungsroman, or novel of self-formation. However, given the focus on traditionally marginalized black female subjects, I broaden a historically narrow usage of the genre to include feminist and postcolonial frameworks. From this revised …
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The common reader and the modernist Bildungsroman : Virginia Woolf's The Waves
… for a revisionist reading of The Waves as a Bildungsroman. Unlike the Bildungsroman of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, which utilised standard novelistic conventions to explore the relation between form and reality, I contend that The Waves is a thoroughly modernist reinvention of the …
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A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman
… a new way of conceptualizing the modernist Bildungsroman, one that accounts for the oft-noted incongruity between modernist experiment and the entrenched realism of the Victorian Bildungsroman. Specifically, I argue that modernist novels such as Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, D. H. Lawrence’s …
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“To Make Myself for a Person”: The Bildungsroman in Modern Jewish-American Literature
<p>Anzia Yezierska's <em>Bread Givers</em> and Abraham Cahan's <em>The Rise of David Levinsky</em> share many similarities: they both feature young Jewish protagonists who immigrate to America in search of the better life they believe America can provide. Though their novels have similar …
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Bluegrass, Bildung, and Blueprints: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as an Appalachian Bildungsroman
… much more problematic than that. Recognizing the Bildungsroman as a vehicle for cultural and social critique in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century writing, this project offers an in-depth literary analysis of John Fox, Jr.'s novel, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, in which I contend …
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The 'Uncreated' Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman
… James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman places James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in conversation with numerous later twentieth century Bildungsromane to argue that texts by Edna O’Brien, John McGahern, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, Jamie O’Neill, Eimear …
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Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions Of National Identity
… LITERARY DESCENDANTS: THE HEROIC FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY</p> <p>by</p> <p>ABIGAIL RUTH HEINIGER</p> <p>May 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Anca Vlasopolos</p> <p>Major: English</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>This dissertation examines the role of …
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“Such a sort of pariah”: Psychosocial Marginality and the Bildungsroman in Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoaks
… Mazo de la Roche’s peculiar articulation of the Bildungsroman in the first of Jalna’s sequels, Whiteoaks. It argues that the text’s psychosocially aberrant protagonist, Finch Whiteoak, is a Bildungsheld whose modern coming-of-age process of accommodation and assimilation into a socio-specific …
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“No One to Show Us the Way:” Assessing the Contemporary Relevance of the Gay Male Bildungsroman
<p>The gay male bildungsroman can trace its origins to E.M. Forster’s posthumously published <em>Maurice</em> (1971) and Edmund White’s <em>A Boy’s Own Story</em> (1982), among other examples. While nested under the umbrella category of the queer bildungsroman (and, more broadly, the …
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Queering the Bildungsroman: homosexuality in the bildungsromane of Jeanette Winterson and Alan Hollinghurst and All Girl Live Action
… writing and consists of two related parts: a Bildungsroman of approximately 75,000 words and an essay of approximately 20,000 words. My novel,<i> All Girl Live Action</i>, is set between 1986 and 1988 and tells the coming-of-age story of Niamh Donnelly, who leaves her family home in Northern …
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Το ταξίδι προς την ενηλικίωση: Τάσεις, εξελίξεις, κυρίαρχες θεματικές στο ελληνικό νεανικό μυθιστόρημα ωρίμανσης (bildungsroman) κατά την τελευταία εικοσαετία (2002-2022)
… εργασία εξετάζει το μυθιστόρημα ωρίμανσης (bildungsroman) ως λογοτεχνικό είδος που αποτυπώνει την πορεία του ατόμου προς την αυτογνωσία και την ενηλικίωση, εστιάζοντας ειδικότερα στο ελληνικό εφηβικό μυθιστόρημα της τελευταίας εικοσαετίας (2002-2022). Στο θεωρητικό μέρος παρουσιάζεται η …
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