Free Download Ned Curthoys, "The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age"
English | ASIN : B0C92Z2HFL | 2024 | 168 pages | EPUB, PDF | 441 KB + 6 MB
The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through self-reflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence. It examines the Bildungsroman as a flourishing intermedial genre encompassing contemporary historical fiction, historical feature films, and children's and YA literature. Analysing a number of highly influential novels and films about the Holocaust and World War II (WWII), the book argues that the narrative strategies of the