bildungsroman

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Definition von bildungsroman im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity

{i} educational novel concerned with the psychological and moral development of the hero (in German)

Novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity

(German; "novel of character development") Class of novel in German and other literature that deals with the formative years of the main character, whose moral and psychological development is depicted. It ends on a positive note, with the hero's foolish mistakes and painful disappointments behind him and a life of usefulness ahead. It grew out of folklore tales in which a dunce goes out into the world seeking adventure. The first novelistic development of the theme, Johann W. von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-96), remains a classic example

Silbentrennung

Bild·ungs·ro·man

Etymologie

() From German Bildungsroman, from Bildung, from bildunge, from bildunga, from bilidon (“to shape”), from bilodi (“form, shape”), + Roman (“novel”), from French, roman (“novel”). Hence "novel of education" or "novel of formation". German term coined c. 1820 by Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern|Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern]]; titled an 1820 text Über das Wesen des Bildungsromans.