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The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse
By (Author) Martin Swales
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
833.009
Paperback
186
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
255g
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, characterization, and narrative commentary in novels