Abstract:

This study focuses on the Victorian Bildungsroman, its certain characteristic features, principles and devices, and a number of structural elements correlated within one fictional pattern. The importance of this study lies in its particular interpretative organization which represents a factor of novelty among the existing possibilities of approach to the literary tradition of Bildungsroman, and which considers diachronically the consolidation of the Bildungsroman writing tradition, its Victorian developing climax, an attempt to define the Bildungsroman, yet primarily it emphasizes the existence of certain typological elements (thematic and narrative) that form a unique fictional structure, the mythic dimension of some of these elements, the principle of character formation, the principle of chronotope and its importance for the structure of Bildungsroman, as well as a number of other factors that constitute aspects of my theoretical and critical argumentation

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