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Goethe's Heirs@@@The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
Edna L. Steeves,Franco Moretti +1 more
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This article is published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.The article was published on 1989-01-21. It has received 529 citations till now.read more
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Scenarios of Power in Turgenev’s First LoveRussian Realism and the Allegory of the State
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The Bildungsroman after Individualism: Ellen Glasgow's Communitarian Alternative
TL;DR: Barren Ground as discussed by the authors is an attempt to adapt literary realism, perennially viewed as the handmaiden of liberal individualism, to an age in which individualism was being replaced by more corporate and associational paradigms.
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“Unwilling to Work Under a ‘Zombie’”: Mass Dictatorship and Normative Choice in Japan, the United States and Canada During the Second World War
TL;DR: In the Second World War, "zombies" played a role in the Canadian war effort, but in ways that the mainstream population and press disparaged as cowardly and insufficiently patriotic as mentioned in this paper.
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The Nineteenth Century: Epic and the Self
TL;DR: By the time we arrive at the nineteenth century, there exists an epic tradition constituted generally by the classical and Renaissance epics, but more particularly emblematised by Milton's Paradise Lost as mentioned in this paper, which is also implicitly indebted to another tradition, represented more explicitly by Fielding and the Cervantine comic epic tradition, with its interest in matters of selfhood and self-development.