Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman

by Tobias Boes

Book Overview

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 difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478030
• ISBN13: 9780801478031
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher