17 books like The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse

What to read after The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Unbecoming women Susan Fraiman · 1993 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Is there a "female Bildungsroman"? Can the story of Elizabeth Bennet's development be yoked to a genre conceived in terms of Wilhelm Meister and David Copperfield? Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman, and turns to novels of development and conduct books by women for a new poetics of growing up." "In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen,… Shares: Bildungsroman, Maturation, Bildungsromans, History and criticism

Die deutsche Heldensage Wilhelm Grimm · 1829 · 426p · ≈ 14h · Challenging This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around… Shares: German literature, History and criticism

Demian Hermann Hesse · 1919 · ★ 4.1 · 171p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual… Shares: Bildungsroman, German fiction, Bildungsromans

Behauptete Subjektivität Markus Malo · 2009 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Die Studie widmet sich der Erforschung der deutschsprachigen jüdischen Autobiographie im 20. Jahrhundert. Nach einem überblick, der die Autobiographietradition im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert beleuchtet, werden die spezifischen Bedingungen der jüdischen Autobiographie, die seit dem Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts entsteht, herausgearbeitet. Im Hauptteil widmet sich die Arbeit der Einzeluntersuchung von… Shares: German literature, History and criticism

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1779 · ★ 3.7 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Edición de Manuel José González. Shares: German literature, German fiction

Die Blechtrommel Günter Grass · 1959 · ★ 3.9 · 591p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Die Blechtrommel ist ein Roman von Günter Grass. Er erschien 1959 als Auftakt der Danziger Trilogie und gehört zu den meistgelesenen Romanen der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur. Der Roman lässt sich als historischer Roman, Zeitroman, Schelmenroman und Entwicklungsroman charakterisieren. ---------- Set against the backcloth of National Socialism, [this novel] is told in the first person by the… Shares: German literature, German fiction

New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman Giovanna Summerfield · 2010 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Bildungsromans, History and criticism

Coming of Age in Franco's Spain Michael D. Thomas · 1899 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Challenging How could authors not write about the effects of a civil war that tore their nation in two, that divided and destroyed families and friends? They had to tell the story, though they were carefully scrutinized and censored. How could they resist artistically and present alternate voices and visions for the future? Writing is resistance, remembering is resistance. Writing is remembering and… Shares: Bildungsromans, History and criticism

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky · 1999 · ★ 4.5 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. The novel details Charlie's unconventional style of thinking as he… Shares: Bildungsroman, Bildungsromans

Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1828 · ★ 4.5 · 397p · ≈ 13h · Challenging In the last years of his life. Shares: German literature, History and criticism

The pragmatics of literary testimony Chantelle Warner · 2012 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary autobiographies that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years. These books have all received critical attention from the popular press, topped bestseller lists, and have been pivotal in discussions of authenticity, subjectivity, and referentiality. Because of the thematic diversity of these works, scholars… Shares: German literature, History and criticism

Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature Heike Hartung · 2015 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden emerges as a specific narrative in the late eighteenth century, the study highlights how the changing experience of ageing is shaped by that of gender. By reading the Bildungsroman as a 'coming of age'… Shares: Bildungsromans, History and criticism

Amor and Psyche Erich Neumann · 1956 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate ''Psyche and Amor'', also known as ''Psyche Receiving Cupid's First Kiss'' (1798), by [[François Gérard: a symbolic butterfly hovers over Psyche in a moment of innocence poised before sexual awakening.Dorothy Johnson, David to Delacroix: The Rise of Romantic Mythology Shares: Psychological fiction, History and criticism

Portrait of a genius Richard Aldington · 1930 · 43p · ≈ 1h · Challenging American ed. (New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce) has title: D. H. Lawrence, portrait of a genius, but ... Includes bibliographical references: (p. 355-356). Shares: Psychological fiction, History and criticism

Victorian women's fiction Shirley Foster · 1985 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemporary assumptions about their own sex. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual develops this area of exploration, showing how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the… Shares: Psychological fiction, History and criticism

Density of Souls, A Christopher Rice · 2000 · ★ 3.0 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Four friends in New Orleans who were pulled apart during high school are drawn back together when they discover that what they thought was an accident was really murder. Shares: Psychological fiction, Bildungsromans

Gender and the self in Latin American literature Emma Staniland · 2015 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns in terms of their role in elucidating a literary journey towards agency: that is, towards the… Shares: Bildungsromans, History and criticism

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