Textual Practice, Volume 34, Issue 12 (2020)

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The Bildungsroman: form and transformations

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The Bildungsroman: form and transformations
John Frow, Melissa Hardie & Vanessa Smith
Pages: 1905-1910
Published online: 18 Nov 2020
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Actors, puppets, Girls: Little Women and the collective Bildungsroman
Katie Trumpener
Pages: 1911-1931
Published online: 27 Oct 2020
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‘Grow backwarder and backwarder’: fissured surfaces and crooked bodies in Frances Burney’s Camilla
Sara Fernandes
Pages: 1933-1953
Published online: 28 Oct 2020
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Battle for the Bildungsroman: ‘protagonicity’ and national allegory
Michael Ormsbee
Pages: 1955-1968
Published online: 26 Oct 2020
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The work of love: Great Expectations and the English Bildungsroman
Matthew Taft
Pages: 1969-1988
Published online: 02 Nov 2020
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Otherwise than literal: convergence and the unworking of allegory in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai trilogy
Michael R. Griffiths
Pages: 1989-2002
Published online: 26 Oct 2020
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Black comedy and the Bildungsroman: Fran Ross’s Oreo
Joseph Litvak
Pages: 2003-2020
Published online: 29 Oct 2020
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Beyond Gay: Denton Welch’s In Youth is Pleasure
Matthew Clarke
Pages: 2021-2036
Published online: 26 Oct 2020
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Kenneth Lonergan’s networked Bildungsromane: Howards End (2017) and Margaret (2011)
Monique Rooney
Pages: 2037-2054
Published online: 27 Oct 2020
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Ivana Trump’s bad Bildung
Melissa Hardie
Pages: 2055-2067
Published online: 26 Oct 2020
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Helga Crane’s camera obscura: Nella Larsen, Garbo’s face, and the modernist longing for plot
Pardis Dabashi
Pages: 2069-2089
Published online: 26 Oct 2020
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Why the Bildungsroman no longer works
Nancy Armstrong
Pages: 2091-2111
Published online: 11 Nov 2020
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The Thatcherite Bildungsroman
Michael Patrick Allen
Pages: 2113-2130
Published online: 29 Oct 2020
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It’s a wise child who knows his own father: the figure of the American family in The Last Samurai and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Yuki Namiki
Pages: 2131-2143
Published online: 11 Nov 2020
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Memoirs of a Spacewoman: Naomi Mitchison’s intergalactic education
Ashley Maher
Pages: 2145-2165
Published online: 02 Nov 2020
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Fixing to die: Kazuo Ishiguro’s reinvention of the Bildungsroman
Lynda Ng
Pages: 2167-2183
Published online: 28 Oct 2020
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