Word: bildungsroman
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...necessary--namely bullying and psychological abuse. According to the publicist, thrust into this atmosphere Jane somehow manages to "retreat deeper into a body and spirit she no longer recognizes," eventually emerging determined to succeed. This book is really a high school pre-med's fairy tale disguised as a Bildungsroman...
...world built entirely on a pretense of keeping up appearances. But just like all those lost and mentally unstable Lowells and Winslows (the author's equally snobbish relatives on the paternal side), Cousin itself is never quite sure what it is. At times it is a barrage of various bildungsroman tales, the coming-of-age stories of various Lowell and Winslow family scions. At other times it is a relentless catalogue of family members moving in and out of prep schools, relationships, asylums and even the hallowed halls of Harvard itself...
...while on The Crimson, I have changed my ideological stance from conservative to liberal and back again, with a "neo-" added. This variation in political allegiance, while from a distance it might be interpreted as a bildungsroman, at the instant has led to charges of disloyalty and hypocrisy. To have kept to myself would have prevented my morphing political persuasion from being open to public criticism. Nevertheless, I have continually played the partisan...
...entire work of nearly 1,600 pages is what is called a bildungsroman, a novel of education, beginning in the late 1800s. Its main character is a brilliant young Javanese named Minke, the son of a minor native aristocrat, who excels as a token native student at an elite Dutch-language high school. But his true education, and that of a Western reader innocent of Indonesian history, is in the realities of racial and economic oppression...
...GREAT WHITE Way glittered the brightest, it would have been an exceptional week that brought the openings of fiercely funny and trenchantly topical plays by three of the nation's leading dramatists. But if the theater seemed reborn with relevance last week -- thanks to Larry Kramer's poignant gay Bildungsroman, The Destiny of Me, David Mamet's lapel-grabbing vision of political correctness cum intellectual terrorism in Oleanna and Wendy Wasserstein's drawing-room comedy with claws, The Sisters Rosensweig -- Broadway was not part of the buzz. For reasons ranging from finances to the tyranny of reviews, the producers...