Formative fictions : nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman
Boes, Tobias, 1976-
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 Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth century, authors have employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders," identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation.
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; adult, serious
Publication and manufacture - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2012
OHK - Primerj. knjiž. in lit. teor. 10313 BOES T. Formative fictions
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