Essays about: "Bildungsroman"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 29 essays containing the word Bildungsroman.

  1. 16. African American Education and Progression in Raplh Ellison's Invisible Man

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jonas Ljungholm; [2016]
    Keywords : Education; African American; Michel Foucault; Bildungsroman; Segregation;

    Abstract :                                   Abstract Literary portraits of African Americans’ struggles in the United States for a more equal society have provided valuable insights into the pain and hardship they had to endure for a large portion of the United States’ existence. Ralph Ellison’s famous novel Invisible Man is one of those novels and is the primary source for this study. READ MORE

  3. 17. Finding the Bildungsroman in contemporary dystopian fiction : a comparison between Great expectations, Jane Eyre and 21st century young adult fiction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Nina Zargarinejad; [2016]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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  4. 18. The Deconstruction of Maturity in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Mikael Sewerin; [2014]
    Keywords : Joyce; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Stephen Dedalus; irony; psychological realism; Bildungsroman; maturity; teleology; deconstruction; static apprehension.;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the use of irony in Joyce’s Portrait, claiming that it has the effect of deconstructing common notions of maturity that are engrained within the Bildungsroman tradition, and that this was Joyce’s intention. In Portrait, irony plays the role of psychological reality, undercutting Stephen’s unrealistic expectation to see his life follow a traditional path of teleological progression. READ MORE

  5. 19. Listening to Jane : A Comparison of the Original Novel Jane Eyre and Three Abridged Audio Book Versions    from the Point of View of Genre.

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Helena Hagberg; [2013]
    Keywords : Genre; Audio books; Abridged books; Jane Eyre; Charlotte Brontë;

    Abstract : While some people enjoy reading full-length novels, most people have a difficult time concentrating on reading or even finding the time to do it. Audio books, especially abridged ones, may be a way for people to enjoy fiction without having to read the whole novel and they can listen to the text at the same time as they do other things. READ MORE

  6. 20. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : A Feminist Bildungsroman

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Christoffer Forss; [2013]
    Keywords : Alice s Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll; Charles Dodgson; Bildungsroman; Feminism; Feminist; English; Fiction; Literature;

    Abstract : This thesis has two aims. The first one is to elucidate how Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) functions as a Bildungsroman, and the other one is to demonstrate how the novel also has a coming of age aspect based on feminism. READ MORE