Meaning of Künstlerromans | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Critics have suggested that Wharton's historical context inhibited her from creating the Künstlerromans that characterize most writers' beginning efforts.”

“The definition calls for a plot that revolves around an artist-protagonist in conflict with society, but the plot of African American künstlerromans cannot be reduced to this conflict.”

“In Theory of the Avant-Garde, part of Peter Bürger's general thesis is that aestheticism reaches a peak when art has become its own topic. This in theory should make Kunstlerromans like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Tarr works of aestheticism.”

“These two ‘autobiographical’ novels are, of course, Bildungsromans – indeed Künstlerromans – as well as genealogical allegorizings of historical and metatextual particularities.”

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