...This chapter expands on the central claims presented in the Introduction. It first examines how traditional Bildungsroman criticism is built on the premise of the protagonist's fulfillment in a normative ideal, and then advances an alternative understanding of the genre based...

...This chapter offers an exemplary reading of Gottfried Keller’s Bildungsroman, Der Grüne Heinrich, in terms of Stimmung. A synopsis of recent theoretical discussions of Stimmung is coupled with an exploration of its affinities with classical “sympatheia” and hence with sympathetic...

... Bildungsroman to be contrasted with competing claims on the genre as a “national allegory” that have been advanced by Fredric Jameson and Jed Esty. apocalyptic temporality of Doctor Faustus Doctor Faustus Mann 1947 Glass Bead Game The Hesse 1946 Hesse Hermann Mann Thomas time and temporality...

...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. This book...

... of German, but of world literary study: Bildungsroman. The Bildungsroman, or “novel of formation,” is a kind of novel that focuses on the spiritual and intellectual maturation of its protagonist. Using the contradictory elements of Morgenstern's biography as the starting...

... to this with a novel in which characters impose different plots onto the same events. The internal division of Germany, on the other hand, meant that such plots could be safely segregated in one and the same novel, resulting in a more picaresque approach to the Bildungsroman. Balzac Honoré de British...

...This chapter examines the notion that the modernist city texts of the early twentieth century put an end to the Bildungsroman tradition, because urban environments provide neither the temporal continuity nor the cultural homogeneity demanded by traditional historicism. It argues...

... present another model of collecting in which gathering and preservation are dialectically informed by dispersal. Keller furthermore inscribes this dialectic into the novel's structural design as Bildungsroman so that the recognition of the trivial becomes the epistemic achievement...