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...Sabina Knight Throughout her discussions, Li emphasizes “the crucial tension between outwardness and inwardness” (p. 8), one of many ideas developed by Martin Swales in The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse (1978), a work Li notes no fewer than 27 times. Although Li once mentions...

.... Building on an analytical framework of “the network of visibility” that incorporates the competition for attention and the competition for content authority (introduction), the book walks the readers through the “Bildungsroman” of the four predominant online platforms (chapter 2); the comic spirit...

... of socialization. The third chapter examines another Meiji text, Seinen ( Youth , 1910) by Mori Ôgai; this time, the anxiety concerns the open-endedness of producing a subjecthood through literary narration. Washburn understands the central character in this bildungsroman as rejecting the possibility...

... bildungsroman in fact exposes the exploitative processes and imperial origins of contemporary globalization. Making inspired use of Alex Woloch's pioneering study of narrative distribution The One vs. the Many , 5 Magosaki convincingly shows how Hagedorn's novella constructs its privileged, cosmopolitan...

.... This bildungsroman depicts the protagonist falling passionately in love with several women before maturing and finding a relationship that allows him to pursue a socially useful career in the public sphere. Karyū shunwa features direct statements of erotic passion (such as kissing) reminiscent of a ninjōbon...

.... This is because, as Haver insists, "genocide is always a present possibility" (p. xv). And so, the normative thought of a history as something to be settled in academic argument, in national curriculums, in the bildungsroman of education, indeed in the pedagogical imaginary itself, is not just irrelevant...

... future of humankind. On another level, Urashimaso is a female Bildungsroman, about a woman in search of her own sense of self by rediscovering her own childhood and Japan's recent historical past. In this personal journey she seeks out her stepbrother, Morito, who in turn brings her into contact with his...

... and challenging reading of Oba's texts as female Bildungsroman. Also in part 3, John Whittier Treat offers an investigation of Hayashi Ky5ko, whose writings of the atomic bombing foreground a female experience that, Treat argues, has been largely misread and misunderstood by male writers and critics. Part 4...

... bungaku no “tanjō”: Genbun-itchi undō to nashona-rizumu {The “Birth” of Modern Japanese Literature: Genbun-itchi Movement and Nationalism}, vol. 6 of Hihyō kūkan sōsho {Critical Space series} . Tokyo : Ota shuppan . Suzuki Michiko . 2001 . “Kindaiteki shutai tankyū: Female Bildungsroman...

... April 11, 2022 ). Bingham Dennis . 2010 . Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press . Boes Tobias . 2008 . “ Apprenticeship of the Novel: The Bildungsroman and the Invention of History, ca. 1770–1820...

... likely to win them converts. "Sebunchin" parodies the bildungsroman (novel of apprenticeship) form, which, according to Suleiman (1983:64-100) is one of the key forms of a roman a these. In the course of a classic bildungsroman a young person changes from a callow innocent to a seasoned reasonable adult...

..., mocking its grandiloquence to reveal its self-deception, reducing its highminded striving to the pathetic dimensions of stubbornness. Whereas Flaubert's earlier novel L'Education Sentimentale undercut the optimism of the conventional Bildungsroman about the process of self-cultivation, Bouvard et...

... twentieth-century Japan. The work is a kind of “bildungsroman ( kyōyō shōsetsu )” (Tsujii 1996 , 366) depicting the protagonist Rutsuko's coming of age; as Sherif ( 1999 , 140) has illustrated, “kimonos are the means by which Rutsuko comes to develop her own sense of personhood.” 10 A character who...

..., N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007). 74 Rachel Leng, “Queer Reflections and Recursion in Homoerotic Bildungsroman,” in Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China , eds. Carlos Rojas and Ralph A. Litzinger (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016), 150–63. 75 Leng...

... state in order to emplot Japanese history in a metanarrative with the nation as subject, an "etatist Bildungsroman" (Geyer 1989, 321-22). The task of writing Tokugawa political history is thus to understand domain politics not only as a precursor to the Meiji state, but as part of a world which the new...