Body and Soul | Style
bildungsroman
As several critics have noted, Body and Soul is a bildungsroman, a novel of formation. According to M. H. Abrams’ A Glossary of Literary Terms, the subject of a bildungsroman “is the development of the protagonist’s mind and character as he passes from childhood through varied experiences—and usually through a spiritual crisis—into maturity and the recognition of his identity and role in the world. . . . An important subtype of the bildungsroman is the Künstlerroman (“artist-novel”), which...
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