Upon leaving college, I came to see literature more as a means of escaping my life than as a way of engaging with it more fully. That’s because I was unsatisfied with this life.
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My Life as Bildungsroman
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Don Quixote, Henry Fielding, Main Street, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sinclair Lewis, Tom Jones Leave a comment
Women Making Sense of Their Lives
The female Bildungsroman arose to help women make sense of their lives in the feminist era.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, female bildungsroman, Franny and Zooey, Goethe, J. D. Salinger, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Comments closed
Female Bildungsromans for College Grads
One of my students, studying the female bildungsroman, is studying Salinger’s “Franny,” Lena Dunham’s “Girls,” and other works.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ben Stiller, Claudia Weill, female bildungsroman, Feminism, Francis Ha, Girlfriends, Girls, Lena Dunham, Noah Baumbach, Reality Bites Comments closed
