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The Literary Image of Man in the Process of Becoming: Variations of the Bildungsroman Genre in English and American Literature
Year: 2011
Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku
Name of source: American and British Studies Annual
Publisher name: Univerzita Pardubice
Place: Pardubice
Page from-to: 116-130
Titles:
Language Name Abstract Keywords
cze Literární obraz tvořícího se člověka: variace na žánr Bildungsroman v anglické a americké literatuře Článek stručně nastiňuje historii žánru, podává přehled teorií žánru a kriticky je hodnotí. Na příkladech textů anglické a americké literatury dokládá, že Bildungsroman je žánr stále aktuální, pro svou flexibilitu v současnosti často využívaný etnickými a menšinovými autory. Jako žánr tedy není omezen pouze kontextem doby svého vzniku. literární žánr; Bildungsroman; anglicky psaný Bildugnsroman; etnický Bildungsroman
eng The Literary Image of Man in the Process of Becoming: Variations of the Bildungsroman Genre in English and American Literature The 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 literary form despite the fact that it came into existence in a particular historical and literary situation of eighteenth-century Germany. The genre’s flexibility allowed for variations and modifications that ensured its contemporary viability in Anglo-American literatures. While the concern with the individual’s emergence from an immature state of childhood to adult maturity, and with individual’s socialization remaining the core focus of the Bildungsroman, studies of the form have lately become involved in the discussions of ethnic and racial identification, of biculturality, of the situation of an individual in a liminal position. This makes Bildungsroman a genre especially important in contemporary American literature. Literary genre; Bildungsroman; Bildungsroman in English; female Bildungsroman; ethnic Bildungsroman

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