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bildungsroman

a novel based on the protagonist's moral, psychological,
or cultural growth

Sightings:

An apprenticeship to life

Take Jesse's word for it -- or Hutchinson's

Your one-stop source for German loan-words

The empire writes back

Character development in a suicide note

Heinlein and Joseph Campbell (explore for SciFi resources)

A Sontag bio and biblio (explore for a calendar of writers)

The poetically tragic life of Wordsmith O'Doherty

A crash course in German lit

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