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            • coming-of-age story
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            • A type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both, often by a process of disillusionment. Understanding comes after the dropping of preconceptions, a destruction of a false sense of security, or in some way the loss of innocence. Some of the shifts that take place are these: * ignorance to knowledge * innocence to experience * false view of world to correct view * idealism to realism * immature responses to mature responses Examples: * Jane Austen Northanger Abbey * Charles Dickens, Great Expectations * Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage VirtualSalt - Robert Harris
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            • Everything about Scherfig’s coming-of-age story about a girl in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961 is spot-on. - Austin Chronicle Corp. by
            • But this comedy about a Texas high schooler (Ellen Page) who reinvents herself as “Babe Ruthless” and becomes the star of an Austin league is a surprisingly credible coming-of-age story. - Creative Loafing Media by
            • Ostensibly a coming-of-age story, this languorous, beautifully shot feature debut from Minh Nguyen-Vo, a writer and director, centers on a teenager whose journey from innocence to knowledge is also a twinned meditation on both the natural and very unnatural state of things. - The New York Times Company by
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            • Bildungsroman
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            • A bildungsroman German: "novel of education") is a coming-of-age kind of novel. It arose during the German Enlightenment. In it, the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a character, usually the protagonist. The term Bildungsroman was coined by Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman Das Genre des Bildungsromans entstand im Deutschland der Aufklärung und thematisiert die Entwicklung einer (meist jungen) Hauptfigur. Der zugrunde liegende Begriff stammt aus Vorträgen des Dorpater Philologen Karl Morgenstern (1770–1852), der im Bildungsroman die „das Wesen des Romans im Gegensatz des Epos am tiefsten erfassende besondere Art desselben“[1] sah. Der deutsche Begriff wird auch in vielen anderen Sprachen, wie etwa dem Englischen, verwendet. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman Wikipedia - by Kim Metzger
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            • In einem Bildungsroman geht es um die „Auseinandersetzung einer zentralen Figur mit verschiedenen Weltbereichen“ [2]. Somit nimmt der Bildungsroman formal gesehen eine „Zwischenstellung zwischen Figuren- und Raumroman“ [2] ein. Die zentrale Figur, der Held, macht eine Entwicklung durch, die von seinem Verhältnis zu den „verschiedenen Weltbereichen“, also seiner Umwelt, bestimmt wird [3]. Das Ganze spielt sich meistens in der Jugend des Helden ab, und die erzählte Zeit erstreckt sich über mehrere Jahre, oft sogar Jahrzehnte. Der Bildungsroman weist somit Elemente einer Biografie auf. - Wikipedia by Kim Metzger
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            • роман за съзряването
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            • Прен. За човек – ставам зрял. Децата съзряват по-рано, отколкото очакваме. зрелост: 1. За човек и животно – период, когато е напълно физически и духовно развит. 2. Прен. Период на пълно развитие на творчески заложби, на майсторство. Творческа зрелост. 3. Качество на духовно или творчески зрял човек; Български тълковен ре - by Miglena Parashkevova
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            • Този теоретичен пътеводител започва с определение на съзряването, като период разположен условно между юношеството и зрялата възраст, в процесът на който индивидите се изправят пред множество промени. - elearning papers by Miglena Parashkevova
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