Editing Bildungsroman (section)

==Plot outline==
A bildungsroman is a growing up or "coming of age" of a generally naive person who goes in search of answers to life's questions with the expectation that these will result in gaining experience of the world. The genre evolved from [[folklore]] tales of a [[dunce]] or youngest child going out in the world to seek their fortune.<ref>"Franco Moretti et John Neubauer, historiens de la littérature, ont tous deux insisté sur le rôle fondamental qu'a joué le roman, depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle jusqu'à la Première Guerre mondiale, dans la construction des âges de la vie, de l'adolescence et la jeunesse. Si, avant cette période, les jeunes sont les laissés-pour-compte de la littérature romanesque, cette entrée tardive est compensée par la place centrale qu'ils occupent dans le roman de formation. Vers la fin du XIXe siècle, quand ce genre entre en crise, les jeunes sont remplacés par les adolescents, nouveaux protagonistes des œuvres de fiction. Après les écrits de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, le roman de formation, ou Bildungsroman, dont l'apogée se situe entre Les années d'apprentissage de Wilhelm Meister de Goethe (1795–1796) et l'Éducation sentimentale de Flaubert (1869), invente la figure littéraire du jeune homme voyageur. C'est à partir donc de cette période qu'il faudra retrouver certains traits des voyages fictionnels, que j'appelle matrices , qui hantent encore notre imaginaire, et que l'on retrouve dans les séjours Erasmus contemporains" (Cicchelli Vincenzo, [https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-telemaque-2010-2-page-57.htm "Les legs du voyage de formation à la Bildung cosmopolite"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604102613/https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-telemaque-2010-2-page-57.htm |date=4 June 2018 }}, ''Le Télémaque'', 2010/2 (n° 38), pp. 57–70. DOI: 10.3917/tele.038.0057.</ref> Usually in the beginning of the story, there is an emotional loss which makes the protagonist leave on their journey. In a bildungsroman, the goal is maturity, and the protagonist achieves it gradually and with difficulty. The genre often features a main conflict between the main character and society. Typically, the values of society are gradually accepted by the [[protagonist]], and they are ultimately accepted into society—the protagonist's mistakes and disappointments are over. In some works, the protagonist is able to reach out and help others after having achieved maturity.

[[Franco Moretti]] "argues that the main conflict in the bildungsroman is the myth of [[modernity]] with its overvaluation of youth and progress as it clashes with the static [[teleological]] vision of happiness and reconciliation found in the endings of [[Goethe]]'s ''Wilhelm Meister'' and even [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Pride and Prejudice (novel)|Pride and Prejudice]]''".<ref>Lazzaro-Weis, Carol. "The Female 'Bildungsroman': Calling It into Question", ''NWSA Journal'', Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 16–34. {{JSTOR|4315991}}</ref>

There are many variations and subgenres of bildungsroman that focus on the growth of an individual. An ''Entwicklungsroman'' ('development novel') is a story of general growth rather than self-cultivation. An ''Erziehungsroman'' ("education novel") focuses on training and formal schooling,<ref>Malone, David H. ''Faculty Development, or Faculty Life as a "Bildungsroman"'', Profession (1979), pp. 46–50. {{JSTOR|25595312}}</ref> while a ''[[Künstlerroman]]'' ("artist novel") is about the development of an artist and shows a growth of the self.<ref name="Werlock2010p387">{{cite book |author=Werlock, James P. |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWuyTK_0eBsC&pg=PA387 |title=The Facts on File companion to the American short story |volume=2 |page=387|publisher=Infobase |isbn=9781438127439}}</ref> Furthermore, some memoirs and published journals can be regarded as bildungsroman although claiming to be predominantly factual (e.g. ''[[The Dharma Bums]]'' by [[Jack Kerouac]] or'' [[The Motorcycle Diaries (book)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]'' by [[Che Guevara|Ernesto "Che" Guevara]]).<ref>"[http://www.realteachertutors.com.au/motorcycle-diaries-che-guevara-hsc-english-discovery/ The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara–HSC English Discovery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160714002933/http://www.realteachertutors.com.au/motorcycle-diaries-che-guevara-hsc-english-discovery/ |date=2016-07-14}}", ''Real Teacher Tutors''. Retrieved 12 July 2016.</ref> The term is also more loosely used to describe coming-of-age films and related works in other genres.