Term as it is now formulated:  Bildungsromane

 

 

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Current Thesaurus location: Genre Terms

 

   

Suggested Thesaurus location: [same]

 

   

Change form of term to: Bildungsromans

 

Current Scope Note:   n/a        

 

Suggested Scope Note: Use for novels in which the theme is the development of a character from youth to adulthood.

 

 

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HIERARCHY:

 

Current Hierarchical location:   Literary forms

                                                       Novels

 

 

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Current UF:  no current UF

 

Suggested UF:         

Apprenticeship novels

Bildungsroman

Bildungsromane

Coming-of-age novels     

 

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Term record as found in GSAFD: 

Bildungsromans: Use for novels in which the theme is the development of a character from youth to adulthood. An example is Charles Dickens' Great expectations.

UF Apprenticeship novels

UF Bildungsromane

UF Coming of age stories

 

 

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Current BT: Novels

 

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Term record as found in AAT (mandatory): 

	Bildungsroman (novels, <document genres for literary works>, ... Visual and Verbal Communication)
Note: Novels of a traditional German genre that focuses on the spiritual development or formative years of an individual. Now in broad use to refer to this type of novel written in any language or in any culture.
Terms:
	Bildungsroman (preferred, C,V,D,American English-P,German-P) Apprenticeship novels (C,V,UF,American English) Coming-of-age novels (C,V,UF,American English) Bildungsromans (C,U,UF,American English) bildungsroman (C,U,UF,American English)
Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.VW

 

 

Term record as found in LCSH (mandatory):    Bildungsromans

            UF Bildungsromane

            UF Apprentice novels

            UF Coming-of-age novels

 

Term record as found in GMGPC (mandatory): Not found

 

 

Term record as found in GSAFD (mandatory): Bildungsromans

Use for novels in which the theme is the development of a character from youth to adulthood. An example is Charles Dickens' Great expectations.

UF Apprenticeship novels

UF Bildungsromane

UF Coming of age stories            

 

 

Term record as found in MeSH (mandatory): Not found

 

 

Term record as found in MIGFG (mandatory): Not found

 

 

Term record as found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (mandatory): Bildungsroman

A novel that has as its main them the formative years or spiritual education of one person (a type of novel traditional in German literature). Hence Bildungs(roman)-hero, the main character in such a novel.

 

 

Term record as found in Webster’s 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language (mandatory): bildungsroman, bildungsromane, bildungsromans (usually capitalized)

A novel about the usually early development or spiritual education of the main character.

 

Term as found in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition (optional): 

 

 

Term as found in source/hierarchical displays/definitions, other sources, &c.:   

Davis, Paul. Charles Dickens A to Z, p. 27: uses Bildungsroman

     Novel describing the maturation of a young man or woman, also known as the Apprenticeship Novel or the Novel of Initiation.

 

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Comments: 

There are 879 uses of our term, Bildungsromane, in OCLC 655’s compared to 9,349 of Bildungsromans.

Precedent: In 1999 we changed the form of Picaresque fiction to Picaresque literature to match LCSH & GSAFD. See Picaresque fiction HN 6/99.

 

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Submitted by:   Kate Moriarty

 

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History Note: Change term from Bildungsromane, add scope note.

 

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Editorial team member & date:  Moriarty 20080528

 

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