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Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist and the Mimic Bildungsroman

Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2019
According to Tobias Boes the much-debated Bildungsroman has proven to be an “unparalleled success as a model by which writers and critics alike can understand the world around them” (p. 242). In the changing perception of the humanistic subject, the word
Simla Ayşe DOĞANGÜN
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Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street: The Bildungsroman and Identity Formation

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
This article employs the psychosocial theories of Erik Erikson on identity development to negotiate the growth and learning process of Esperanza Cordero, the young adolescent heroine of Sandra Cisneros’s novel The House on Mango Street (1984).
Shadi S. Neimneh
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The Role of the Governess in The Turn of the Screw

Odisea, 2017
: For more than a hundred years, the role of the governess in The Turn of the Screw has been the centre of an enormous controversy among literary critics.
Raúl Valiño Siota
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Hamlet como ironía dominada. Una lectura desde Kierkegaard y el Bildungsroman / Hamlet as Controlled Irony. A Reading from Kierkegaard and the Bildungsroman

Valenciana, 2020
Con el fin de explorar los aportes de Kierkegaard a la teoría literaria en conexión con la filosofía, este estudio aborda dos cuestiones: el modo específico como Goethe introduce en Los años de aprendizaje de Wilhelm Meister el drama ...
Luis Guerrero Martínez
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The Eighteenth‐Century Mentor Book

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 127-143, June 2024.
Abstract The modern definition and associations of the word ‘mentor’ — a guide or adviser to a less experienced person — can be traced back to François Fénelon's didactic novel, Les aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse (1699). The novel was one of the most widely read works of the eighteenth century, but its influence on British didactic literature ...
Laura Blunsden
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Public Care for Children in (Post)Socialist European Films: On the Side of Sons and Stepdaughters of the Nation?

Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 87-104, March 2024.
Abstract This article explores the multifaceted role of films that disseminate critical views on public care for children in terms of their epistemic sensitivity towards the main challenges of constructing discursive practices around children and their subjectivity.
Victoria Shmidt
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The Literary Image of Man in the Process of Becoming: Variations of the Bildungsroman Genre in English and American Literature

American and British Studies Annual, 2011
This article briefly outlines a history of Bildungsroman and provides an overview of theories of the genre and a critical assessment of them. It argues that the genre, notwithstanding some critical opinions to the contrary, is still a very potent ...
Šárka Bubíková
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The Postures of Failure in the Novel Spune-mi Gioni! by Aureliu Busuioc [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
The novel Spune-mi Gioni! by Aureliu Busuioc presents the scenarios of a young man’s failure in communism. The stylistic characteristics of the writer are irony, the caricature exaggeration of particular aspects of the loser and the construction of ...
Alina Cojocari
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Pleural clinic: where thoracic ultrasound meets respiratory medicine. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne), 2023
Tinè M, Daverio M, Semenzato U, Cocconcelli E, Bernardinello N, Damin M, Saetta M, Spagnolo P, Balestro E.   +8 more
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Relire Maïa l’abeille aujourd’hui

Strenae, 2013
Maya the Bee, a bestseller in German literature in the early 1920s, is hardly known today in its original version. The author of this paper puts forth a rereading of the work by emphasizing the variety of the story, at the confluence of several popular ...
Mathilde Lévêque
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