Künstlerromans

A form of Künstlerroman — A novel whose central character is an artist of any kind, and which shows his or her development from childhood to maturity.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of Künstlerroman

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

    1994, Jack Salzman, Prospects, volume 19, page 443
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    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.

    1999, Madelyn Jablon, Black Metafiction, page 56

    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.

    1999, Anne Quéma, The Agon of Modernism, page 150

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

    2004, Jeffrey W Hunter, Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume 191, page 224
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