Bildungsroman
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Kuang once again crafts a unique Bildungsroman that doesn't fulfill the usual expectations for what fantasy is or perhaps, what a Western fantasy is expected to be — and that is its most profound strength.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2022
The unusually wide-angle perspective may owe something to the fact that the main character, slightly older than the Bildungsroman norm, has a lot of experiential miles behind him.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2022
In the Bildungsroman of Mr. Johnson’s life, his chapter as a journalist in Brussels occupies a particular place.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2020
The show is an epic Bildungsroman and dank autofiction, built tough by the RZA, about a young black man hoping to mold himself into a god.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2019
One might say, indeed, that at the beginning of the 20th century the traditional form of German fiction, the Bildungsroman, had come into its ancient rights again.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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Literary Genres - Advanced
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