Giraffen mit kurzen Hälsen und eine Schule ohne Kinder: drei Tage aus dem Leben einer Biologielehrerin - die letzte ihrer Art. (Buchrücken verso).
A history of the bildungsroman
"Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen's masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise…
This thesis situates Yann Martel’s Life of Pi within the area of sea studies, analyzing the novel at the intersection of ecocritical ethics, social histories at sea, shipwreck allusions in literary texts, and the burgeoning field of blue cultural studies. My thesis also features…
This thesis explores how contemporary situation comedies, Friends and Will & Grace in particular, can be read as bildungsroman texts. I posit that Friends and Will & Grace function as current bildungsroman works because they foreground narratives of character change, and like th…
This thesis is the first extensive study devoted to the generic originality of Iurii Tynianov’s representation of Pushkin in his two historical novels, Pushkin (1935-1943) and the abandoned The Gannibals (1932). Chapter 1 contextualises Tynianov’s contribution to the current deb…
Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man functions as an axis around which writers from former British colonies—Salman Rushdie (India), Tayeb Salih (Sudan), and Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)—construct their own Bildungsromane. This nodal point is possible because Joyce’s …
The Evolving Self: Postmodern Coming-of-Age Novels by Women Writing in the United States examines contemporary expressions of the genre of the Bildungsroman. Rather than focusing on one individual's development at the expense of an analysis of wider social issues, the novels dis…
This study is a comparative analysis of the African female Bildungsroman, or novel of growth and development. The study traces the textual construction of identity in selected texts by male and female authors writing in English and Swahili languages. The selected texts are: Said…