Boes, Tobias (Professor, Professor, University of Notre Dame),Braun, Rebecca (Professor, Professor, Lancaster University),Spiers, Emily (Lecturer, Lecturer, Lancaster University)
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Boes (German, U. of Notre Dame) offers a stimulating analysis of the bildungsroman genre that departs from what he considers the traditional interpretation of "the protagonist's fulfillment in a natio
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 differ