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Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Stendhal;Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von;Immermann, Karl;Boes, Tobias;Freytag, Gustav;Joyce, James;Döblin, Alfred;Mann, Thomas;Eliot, George is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

What is Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) about?

<p>The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature.</p><p>Sin

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Author
Stendhal;Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von;Immermann, Karl;Boes, Tobias;Freytag, Gustav;Joyce, James;Döblin, Alfred;Mann, Thomas;Eliot, George
Publisher
Cornell University Library, Cornell University Press
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780801465659
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism
Updated
2026-03-25

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