Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman
by
Tobias Boes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
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...