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Journal articles on the topic "Female Bildungsroman"

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Tinglianhoi, Livia. "Madhabi: A Female Bildungsroman." transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 04, no. 01 (2024): 46–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.53034/transcript.2024.v04.n01.004.

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As a literary phenomenon and genre, Bildungsroman has been extensively used as a literary term and a critical research method. This particularly applies to the current novel, Dr. Kamal’s Madhabi, under study. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to critically analyze the novel translated from the original Meiteilon into English by R.K Birendra Singh. It explores the common themes of the genre Bildungsroman, specifically female Bildungsroman, such as the quest for identity, female character psyche, socio-cultural factors, female education, etc. in the novel, emphasizing Madhabi, one of the femal

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Hamilton, Kate C. "London and the Female Bildungsroman." Burney Journal 11 (December 31, 2011): 38–54. https://doi.org/10.26443/tbj.v11i.532.

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Šnircová, Soňa. "Gender and Genre: From the Female Bildungsroman to the Postfeminist Coming-of-Age Novel." Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics, no. 3(2021) (September 25, 2021): 243–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/2079-6021-2021-3-243-253.

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The paper draws attention to the fact that the introduction of gender perspectives into the studies of the Bildungsroman, or novel of development, has opened up the possibility of delineating specific female versions of the genre, ranging from the classic female Bildungsroman, through the feminist Bildungsroman to the postfeminist coming-of-age novel. The following discussion of heroines in British novels of development focuses on the changing socio-cultural factors that have influenced the representations of women’s emancipatory struggles in works by female authors over recent centuries. The

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Šnircová, Soňa. "Queering gender in contemporary female Bildung narrative." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 3, no. 3 (2015): 135–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0027.

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Abstract The paper explores, in the context of feminist discussions about the Bildungsroman, a contemporary British novel that offers shocking images of female coming of age at the turn of the millennium. Queering gender and introducing male elements into the heroine’s process of maturation, the analysed novel appears to raise questions about the continuous relevance of the feminist distinction between male and female version of the genre. The paper however argues that although significantly rewriting both female Bildung and pornographic narratives, Helen Walsh’s Brass can still be read as a v

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Noomé, I. "Shaping the self: A Bildungsroman for girls?" Literator 25, no. 3 (2004): 125–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.267.

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This article proposes that two alternative forms of the “Bildungsroman” developed from circa 1860 to 1960, featuring young female protagonists and aimed at girls as a readership. To explore this proposition, the article initially focuses on three girls’ series to see whether they meet the criteria for classification as a “Bildungsroman”: the South African “Soekie” series written in Afrikaans by Ela Spence, the well-known Canadian “Anne of Green Gables” series by L.M. Montgomery, and the German “Pucki” series by Magda Trott. In these series girls have to learn through experience as they move to

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Jain, Shreyansh, and Smita Jha. "The Bildungsroman Trope and Indian Consciousness in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape (2008)." Archiv orientální 93, no. 1 (2025): 89–107. https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.93.1.89-107.

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With the arrival of the twenty-first century, the representation of females in the dystopian bildungsroman has been observed in the works of Indian women authors, such as Escape (2008), The Island of Lost Girls (2015), The Lesson (2015), Clone (2018), and Machinehood (2021). These novels put a greater emphasis on the subversive possibilities of identity formation as a tool to resist oppressive social norms and codes. In this regard, Manjula Padmanabhan’s novels achieve different semantics by depicting the protagonist’s unconventional method of identity formation while shaping a discussion on t

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JeongEunsook. "Reading Annie John as a Caribbean Female Bildungsroman." Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature 53, no. 1 (2011): 337–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18853/jjell.2011.53.1.016.

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Gajović, Hristina. "Sylvia Plath's the bell jar as female bildungsroman." Genero, no. 21 (2017): 87–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/genero1721087g.

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Tolan, F. "ELLEN MCWILLIAMS. Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman." Review of English Studies 61, no. 250 (2010): 490–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgq044.

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Howells, C. A. "Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman. Ellen McWilliams." Contemporary Women's Writing 4, no. 2 (2010): 153–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpp038.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Female Bildungsroman"

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Rountree, Wendy Alexia. "THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997212820.

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Hefferon, Marguerite Lee. "The nineteenth-century female Bildungsroman and the Romantic epic tradition." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1239108475.

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Dyson, Mandy. "Empire girls : white female protagonists, the Bildungsroman and challenges to narrative /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd998.pdf.

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Bellamy, Connie. "The new heroines : the contemporary female Bildungsroman in English Canadian literature /." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72826.

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Nunez, Lena M. "The Female Bildungsroman in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2349.

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This project examines the concepts of the female bildungsroman in literature. In particular it looks at two female characters created by George R.R. Martin, the sisters, Sansa and Arya Stark. The project focuses on the characteristics of the female bildungsroman and whether or not the female bildungsroman is a valid literary concept. This has been done by examining what is a bildungsroman and is there a difference between male and female bildungsroman. The goal is to show that the female bildungsroman is valid and that Sansa and Arya are perfect examples.

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Nordlén, Lisa. "The Journey from Innocence to Experience : Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials as a female Bildungsroman." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4396.

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In this essay the main aim is to consider Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials with its female protagonist as a Bildungsroman. The principal source of the study is Jerome Buckley’s Season of Youth – The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding. Buckely’s presentation of the significant characteristics of the Bildungsroman will be applied to Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials in order to explore if these characteristics are present, modified or not, in the trilogy. The second aim is to investigate how His Dark Materials relates to the patterns of the hero’s journey. In order to approach

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Shiraki, Karisa Saori. "Woman Seeking Mother: The Heroine’s Journey in Waslala by Gioconda Belli." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8428.

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Motherhood and maternity are common themes in Nicaraguan author Gioconda Belli’s (1948–) writings, but in Waslala (2006) her exploration of the mother figure dives further into what a relationship with such a figure provides. Through a development narrative, parallel to that of female Bildungsroman and quest-romance, the protagonist, Melisandra, grows in maternal history and culture in her search for mother. This thesis uses the theories of Carol Christ, Dana Heller, Joseph Campbell and others to see Melisandra’s odyssey through the lens of a quest narrative. Along this journey, two maternal f

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Landh, Therese. "The Coming of Age of a Woman : Proto-feminism and Female Bildung in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-156900.

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This thesis examines the influence of the proto-feminist ideas of the Enlightenment on Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, specifically their presence in the coming-of-age journey of the novel’s heroine Catherine Morland. In this thesis, the proto-feminist ideas of the Enlightenment discussed are based on the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft as presented in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. I focus on Wollstonecraft’s emphasis on the importance of reason for the emancipation of women as well as the role of virtue and modesty, but also on the existence of an ambivalent relationship between sense an

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Akman, Bilgen Melehy Hassan. "Female lead characters as examples of Bildungsroman heroines in L'Amour, la fantasia by Assia Djebar and Les yeux baissés by Tahar Ben Jelloun." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2774.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 10, 2010). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Romance Languages French." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.

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Abreu, Relines Rufino de. "Mulher de papel, mulher de talento: a representação da escritora na ficção em Reparação, de Ian McEwan, e em Um beijo de colombina, de Adriana Lisboa." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2016. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/3054.

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Books on the topic "Female Bildungsroman"

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Bezhanova, Olga. Growing up in an inhospitable world: Female Bildungsroman in Spain. Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, 2013.

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Kavan, Anna. A stranger still. Peter Owen, 1995.

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Labovitz, Esther Kleinbord. The myth of the heroine: The female Bildungsroman in the twentieth century : Dorothy Richardson, Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing, Christa Wolf. P. Lang, 1986.

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Augustin, Sabine. Eighteenth-century female voices: Education and the novel. Peter Lang, 2005.

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Jaffe, Rona. The Best of Everything. 9th ed. Penguin Books, 2005.

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Jaffe, Rona. The bestof everything. Coronet, 1985.

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Jaffe, Rona. The Best of Everything. Penguin USA, Inc., 2009.

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Fielding, Henry. The history of Tom Jones: A foundling : and, The female husband. Vintage Books, 2007.

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Joy, Williams. The quick and the dead. A. Knopf, 2000.

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Jane, Austen. Emma. Dover Publications, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Female Bildungsroman"

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Dhar, Nandini. "Othered Places and the Bengali Leftist Female Bildungsroman: Sulekha Sanyal’s Nabankur and the Pre-Independence Communist Everyday." In Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96494-8_2.

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Berthiot, Marine. "Magdalene Trauma-Telling in Aotearoa New Zealand Literature. A Comparative Study of Two Female Bildungsromane: Does This Make Sense to You? By Renée (1994), and Rich Man Road by Ann Glamuzina (2015)." In Unmasking (New) Maternal Realities. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73671-1_13.

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Smith, Vanessa. "Bildung Blocks." In Toy Stories. Fordham University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9781531503574.003.0005.

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This chapter foregrounds violent play as fundamental to the representation of childhood within the Bildungsroman. It argues that the Bildungsroman’s toy stories encapsulate a counter-imperative of regression working against its developmental propulsion: one that exposes the thesis of the novel’s maturation—from sentiment to realism, from the depiction of flat to rounded character, from the picaresque to the Bildungsroman—as comparably marked by formal reversion and compromised interiority. It focuses on two female Bildungsromane: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853) and George Eliot’s The Mill o

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"Chapter 4. The Female Bildungsroman." In From Margins to Mainstream. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812206708.94.

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Scheible, Ellen. "Bildung and the Nonreproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing." In The Irish Bildungsroman. Syracuse University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18472980.16.

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"1. Is There a Female Bildungsroman." In Unbecoming Women. Columbia University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/frai94490-002.

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Joannou, Maroula. "The Female Bildungsroman in the Twentieth Century." In A History of the Bildungsroman. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316479926.009.

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"The Coming of Age of the Female Bildungsroman." In Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315249735-10.

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"Progress, Identity, and the Canadian Imaginative Landscape: Cultural and Critical Contexts." In Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315249735-11.

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"The Canadian Bildungsroman: The “Birth of a Nation” in The Nature Hut and Surfacing." In Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315249735-13.

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