Bildungsroman
Bildungsroman (pronuntiatu Theodisco ), in criticis litterariis est quoddam genus litterarum, quae ad psychologiam et moralitatem personae principalis a iuventute usque ad aetatem adultam spectant et in quibus personarum evolutio maximi est momenti.

Exempla generis litterarum "Bildungsroman" sunt mythistoriae Die Leiden des jungen Werthers et Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre a Goethe, Der grüne Heinrich a Godofredo Keller et Der Zauberberg a Thoma Mann conscriptae.

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Bibliographia
 Abel, Elizabeth, Marianne Hirsch, Elizabeth Langland. 1983. The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England.
 Bakhtin, Mikhail. Mikhail. 1996. “The Bildungsroman and its Significance in the History of Realism.” In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Edited by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 10-59.
Engel, Manfred (2008): Variants of the Romantic 'Bildungsroman' (with a Short Note on the 'Artist Novel')". In: Gerald Gillespie, Manfred Engel and Bernard Dieterle (eds.), Romantic Prose Fiction (= A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, vol. XXIII; ed. by the International Comparative Literature Association). Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 263–295. ISBN 978-90-272-3456-8.
Iversen, Anniken Telnes (2009): Change and Continuity: The Bildungsroman in English. University of Tromsø, Munin.

 Lynch, Jack (1999) Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms, entry for bildungsroman, Rutgers University
Summerfield, Giovanna and Downward, Lisa (2010) New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman

Genera litterarum
Verba Theodisca