URI: <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2003003087#concept>

Type: Topical Term

Alternate Labels: Apprenticeship novels; Bildungsroman; Bildungsromane; Coming-of-age novels; Entwicklungsromane; Erziehungsromane

Broader Terms:

• Fiction

Narrower Terms:

• Künstlerromane

Sources:

• Web. 3 (Bildingsroman, pl. Bildungsromane or Bildungsromans)
• Random House dict. (Bildingsroman, pl. Bildungsromans or Bildungsromane)
• Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, Etc. (Bildungsromans)
• Sears List of Subject Headings (Bildungsromans)
• Encyc. Britannica (Bildungsroman ... sometimes called an Entwicklungsroman ("novel of character development"))
• Cuddon. Dict. of lit. terms (Bildungsroman same as Erziehungsroman)
• Holman. Handbk. to literature (Apprenticeship novel now usually called a Bildungsroman; Bildungsroman includes Erziehungsroman, Entwicklungsroman and Kunstlerroman; except for Kunstlerroman, distinctions lost in English & Amer. criticism)
• Web site Novelguide, Oct. 10, 2003 (review of Bless Me, Ultima: "the coming-of-age novel is also known as the Bildungsroman")

Created: 2003-11-17

Last Modified: 2006-09-28 07:52:50



Alternate Formats: RDF/XML, N-Triples, JSON