Description:
Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature.
Brief description: Tobias Boes is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame.
Review Quotes:
By reinserting less well-studied German examples into a history of the genre, Boes resists turning plots into theoretical self-descriptions. His approach allows the genre the freedom of its individual solutions.... Boes remains true to the incipient insight that he has unearthed in Morgenstern.
--Nicholas Dames "Modern Language Quarterly"