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Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (Hardcover)
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Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (Hardcover)
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The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well
traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of
maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to
that identity. The German word "Bildung" refers to forming and
shaping, and the first Bildungsromane in 18th-century Germany
focused on the hero's self-formation. Modernists such as Thomas
Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf
adopted and reinvigorated the Bildungsroman form as a means of
telling stories about longing and transition. With this first major
study of the historical context of the English and Irish
Bildungsroman, Gregory Castle revisits the genre with a special
interest in self-development and identity, as well as the viability
of the classical concept of Bildung in the modernist era. Drawing
on German philosopher Theodor Adorno's theory of negative
dialectics (which values the negative moment as a potentially
critical force), Castle demonstrates the ongoing relevance of the
Bildungsroman form and its powerful capacity for social and
cultural critique. Its vitality is due in large measure to its
ability to represent, in a self-consciously critical fashion, the
complex and contradictory modes of self-development that have
arisen in late modernity. The author contends that modernism
managed to rehabilitate one of the most conventional genres in the
history of literature. Examining such works as D. H. Lawrence's
"Sons and Lovers" and James Joyce's "A""Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man," Castle provides a significant scholarly contribution to
literary criticism that will be of interest to students and
scholars of modernism, the modernist novel, and Irish studies, as
well as the problem of education and class in English and Irish
literature.
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