Essays about: "Bildungsroman"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 29 essays containing the word Bildungsroman.

  1. 21. In Search of Firmness-Parenting and Education in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sari-Leena Viirola; [2012]
    Keywords : Dickens; David Copperfield; parenting; education; upbringing; parent-child relation; child abuse; firmness;

    Abstract : Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield abounds with fatherless and motherless children, whose development into adolescence and adulthood is strongly affected by the parenting skills of the remaining parent. This essay studies different parenting and educational practices in the novel to see their impact on the behaviour and personality of the children. READ MORE

  3. 22. The bildung of Fanny Hill : John Cleland's Memoirs of a woman of Pleasure

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Christoffer Fogelström; [2011]
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    Abstract : This essay explores the concept of the bildungsroman in relation to the first pornographic novel, John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. The main protagonist and her bildung is described through the different roles she takes on as the novel progresses. READ MORE

  4. 23. Alice’s Vacillation between Childhood and Adolescence in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

    University essay from Avdelningen för språk

    Author : Jenny Karlsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Lewis Carroll; Alice in Wonderland; Alice; childhood; adolescence; Erik Erikson; Jean Piaget; child protagonist; identity; vacillation; metacognition; adults; development; grow; confusion; experiential learning; John Dewey;

    Abstract : In the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice, the protagonist, is supposed to be seven years of age. However, the reader can perceive her as older than that and get the impression that she has entered adolescence. READ MORE

  5. 24. Moral Education in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Maria Wartanian; [2010]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Education; Bildungsroman; Jane Austen; Utbildning; Bildungsroman;

    Abstract : Jane Austen wrote her novels over two hundred years ago. Today many people, especially women, are still affected by them and her characters. READ MORE

  6. 25. "Gender and Genre" : A Feminist Exploration of the Bildungsroman in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and Martha Quest

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Camilla Brändström; [2009]
    Keywords : Bildungsroman; development; adolescence; Bildung; identity; independence; feminist literary critique; Doris Lessing; James Joyce.;

    Abstract : The predominant focus on the male protagonist in the Bildungsroman genre has provoked feminist critics to offer a re-definition of the genre, claiming that the female protagonist's development differs in significant ways from the traditionally expected course of development (i.e. male). READ MORE