"What is a Bildungsroman?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Great Explanation! Thank you so much for such quality definition... Ich liebe die deutschesprache.

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[@christennaw2525]

Thank you so much for this. I am in the planning stages of writing an essay on The Girl with a Pearl Earring on this topic. This helped a lot. I also appreciate you putting the MLA citation on the web page.

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[@hiimgeorge6688]

So Bildungsroman is a German archaic term for a coming of age genre?

[@SWLF]

Great question, George! We would say sort of. Calling a novel a Bildungsroman rather than a coming-of-age story certainly calls attention to its historical as well as formal features, but we wouldn't use the negative term archaic. If we were to call Harry Potter a coming-of-age story, we would be calling attention to its plot. If we were to call it a Bildungsroman, we would be calling attention to its plot AND placing it alongside a common set of novels that begins in the 18th century. Why might we want to do so in a literary analysis? What kind of analysis would readers of that hypothetical essay or discussion expect would follow?

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