Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the "Bildungsroman" / / Tobias Boes.

• Author: Boes, Tobias, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, N.Y. : : Cornell University Library,, 2012.; ©2012.
• Yayın Tarihi: 2012
• Dil: English
• Seri Bilgileri: Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
• Fiziksel Özellikler: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Notlar: Description based upon print version of record.

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 Fi...