Essays about: "Bildungsroman"

Showing result 26 - 29 of 29 essays containing the word Bildungsroman.

  1. 26. The Journey from Innocence to Experience : Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials as a female Bildungsroman

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Lisa Nordlén; [2009]
    Keywords : Bildungsroman; Buckley; Campbell; development; female; His Dark Materials;

    Abstract : In this essay the main aim is to consider Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials with its female protagonist as a Bildungsroman. The principal source of the study is Jerome Buckley’s Season of Youth – The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding. READ MORE

  3. 27. Old Traits and New Fiction, The Role of the Contemporary Bildungsroman in Contemporary Fiction : A Comparison Based on Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Karin Svensson; [2009]
    Keywords : Hanif Kureishi; Bildungsroman; Buddha in literature; fulfillment; inner peace; pedagogical; moral lesson; traits; contemporary values; Great Expectations; Charles Dickens; Suburbia; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to study the key characteristics of the Bildungsroman and examine if the same traits still are in use in contemporary fiction and what values that are being mediated. The aim is also to focus on the style in which the pedagogical message is being delivered thus highlighting the possible differences and similarities between an old-fashioned Bildungsroman, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, and a contemporary one, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. READ MORE

  4. 28. Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain as a Bildungsroman

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Anna Söder; [2006]
    Keywords : Bildungsroman; Alexander; Lloyd; Buckley; Jerome; The Chronicles of Prydain; English literature; Engelsk litteratur; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The Chronicles of Prydain are a children´s fantasy written by Lloyd Alexander and published for the first time between 1964 and 1968. According to Alexander, "the Prydain books all together might be an attempt to express what it takes to become a human - all the things that you have to go through and give up and learn and so forth to become a real human being". READ MORE

  5. 29. The Emancipation of Celie : The Color Purple as a womanist Bildungsroman

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Sofia Sundqvist; [2006]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; womanism; Bildungsroman; womanist Bildungsroman; Celie; Sofia; Shug; pantheism;

    Abstract : The Emancipation of Celie: The Color Purple as a womanist Bildungsroman The purpose of this essay is to study The Color Purple as a Bildungsroman, focusing on the development of the protagonist, Celie. The Color Purple is related to both the traditional Bildungsroman and to the female Bildungsroman, but the essay shows that it can also be seen as a womanist Bildungsroman. READ MORE