bildungsroman
See also: Bildungsroman
English
Alternative forms
- Bildungsroman
Etymology
Borrowed from German Bildungsroman, from Bildung (“education, formation”) + -s- + Roman (“novel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.dʊŋzˌɹoʊ.mən/, /ˈbɪl.dʊŋz.ɹoʊˌmɑːn/
Noun
bildungsroman (plural bildungsromans or bildungsromane)
- A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
- 2016 January 25, Adam Kirsch, “What’s great about Goethe?”, in The New Yorker:
- English speakers are more hospitable to fiction in translation, and yet when was the last time you heard someone mention “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” or “Elective Affinities,” Goethe’s long fictions? These books have a good claim to have founded two of the major genres of the modern novel—respectively, the Bildungsroman and the novel of adultery.
- 2020, Frederick Amrine, Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman: Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2:
- Goethe's honorific assignment to the vanguard of a uniquely German novelistic tradition of the bildungsroman simultaneously places him outside the mainstream of the development of the novel.
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Translations
a type of novel
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Further reading
- bildungsroman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “bildungsroman”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from German Bildungsroman.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɪl.duŋs.roːˌmɑn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bil‧dungs‧ro‧man
Noun
bildungsroman m (plural bildungsromans, diminutive bildungsromannetje n)
- bildungsroman
Synonyms
- vormingsroman
Romanian
Etymology
From German Bildungsroman.
Noun
bildungsroman n (plural bildungsromane)
- bildungsroman
Declension
Declension of bildungsroman
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bildungsroman | bildungsromanul | (niște) bildungsromane | bildungsromanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) bildungsroman | bildungsromanului | (unor) bildungsromane | bildungsromanelor |
vocative | bildungsromanule | bildungsromanelor |
Spanish
Noun
bildungsroman m (plural bildungsromans)
- bildungsroman