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While no final decisions regarding class curricula have been made, Claybaugh hopes to teach a survey of the bildungsroman??which translates to “novel of education”—around the world...

Author: By James K. Mcauley and Julia L Ryan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: English Department Adds Professors | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

...Smalls, the protagonist of “Huge,” James W. Fuerst’s debut novel, has more than his fair share of adolescent angst with which to deal. “Huge” uses a fairly familiar archetype as its foundation—the bildungsroman??but the storyline quickly diverges from cliché to downright bizarre. The novel, narrated from the young Genie’s perspective, struggles to maintain a balance between reliability and believability, and, in satisfying the former, sometimes compromises the latter. Genie is a precocious preteen with a high...

Author: By Isabel E. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Debut Novel Hardly 'Huge' | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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