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"The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher
"The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighborhood, her daily trials and triumphs - from childhood to old age"--Provided by the publisher.
Arguing that the Bildungsroman is humanist culture's own origin story, Feder draws on the work of biologists in her examination of works by Voltaire, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf and Jamaica Kincaid. She dramatizes Western culture's own awareness of the instability of the binary…
'Unseasonable Youth' examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence.
"The bildungsroman, with its elegant arc charting a protagonist's progression from childhood to maturity, is one of literature's most familiar and enduring genres. Yet in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a series of novels appeared that began to upend this class…
"A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, Young China combines historical investigations of the origin and development of modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological …
"A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, Young China combines historical investigations of the origin and development of modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological …
"A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, Young China combines historical investigations of the origin and development of modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological …
"A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, Young China combines historical investigations of the origin and development of modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological …
"A synthesis of narrative theory and cultural history, Young China combines historical investigations of the origin and development of modern Chinese youth discourse with close analyses of the novelistic construction of the Chinese Bildungsroman, which depicts the psychological …
Focusing specifically on the Bildungsroman and international human rights law, Slaughter analyzes the "legibility" of human rights, the literary, political, and juridical effect of transcribing into international law conventions the ancient Greeks felt were so pervasive they cou…
Examining Margaret Atwood's work in the context of the history of the Bildungsroman, the author explores how the genre has been appropriated by women writers in the later 20th century. She demonstrates that Atwood's early work both engages with and works against the paradigms of…
Examining Margaret Atwood's work in the context of the history of the Bildungsroman, the author explores how the genre has been appropriated by women writers in the later 20th century. She demonstrates that Atwood's early work both engages with and works against the paradigms of…