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- noun Plural form of
bildungsroman .
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hernesheir commented on the word bildungsromane
But in many — perhaps most— Bildungsromane, this world of otherness is of subordinate interest; the real emphasis is on the development of the self of the protagonist. -- "Self and Other in Two Bildungsromane: The Centaur and The Magus", in John Neary, Something and Nothingness: the Fiction of John Updike & John Fowles, 1999, p.103.
I am aware that nouns are capitalized in German, as they were in older forms of written English, and that bildungsromane is a plural.
July 16, 2010