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Identity-Construction And Development In The Modernist Bildungsroman, Victoria Gordon Jan 2016

Identity-Construction And Development In The Modernist Bildungsroman, Victoria Gordon

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"Near the turn of the 20th century, with the advent of modernist modes of creation and thinking, there is a perceptible shift in the narrative of the Bildungsroman. This essay focuses on the shift in perception of the self and self-development in the modernist. Bildungsroman by performing a psychoanalytic reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian (1890) Gray and James Joyce’s The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." --pages 1-2