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bildungsroman

literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age)
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Summary

bildungsroman is a novel genre[1]. bildungsroman ranks in the top 4% of novel genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,476 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Karl Morgenstern[3]
  • Subclass of: coming-of-age fiction[4], novel[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bildungsromans[6]
  • Main subject: coming of age[7]
  • Described at URL: http://edebiyat.k12.org.tr/kavramlar/Bildungsroman+Nedir%3F/21[8]

Why It Matters

bildungsroman has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] bildungsroman is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Bel-Ami Buddenbrooks Candide David Copperfield Great Expectations James Joyce Jane Eyre John Green Lazarillo de Tormes Little Women Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Mortal Engines Norwegian Wood Sense and Sensibility Stranger in a Strange Land The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Catcher in the Rye The Charterhouse of Parma The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The Magic Mountain The Neverending Story The Red and the Black The Tin Drum To Kill a Mockingbird Ulysses

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → bildungsroman
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: bildungsroman, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289910212|bildungsroman (#289910212)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
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