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Women's Voices in the Novel

Development of Heroine in "Bildungsroman"

Author(s): Nina Sirković
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Gender history
Published by: Филолошки факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: female Bildungsroman; an awakening to limitations; modernism; oppression

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to establish the differences between the male and female variants of Bildungsroman, as well as to follow the development of the female ones, from its beginning to the 20th century. As a result of great historical, social and cultural changes in society, as well as of the modernist movement, this kind of novel experienced significant changes. Women novelists became even more aware of their awakening to limitations, which are still determined by a patriarchal society.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 110-129
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Croatian