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Künstlerromans
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English
Noun
en noun form
en Künstlerroman
en 1994 Jack Salzman Prospects 19 http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=OM8DTIbLNpq2zQTr3_SNDQ&cd=1&num=100&as_brr=0&id=Gw0WAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22creating+the+K%C3%BCnstlerromans%22&q=%22creating+the+Kunstlerromans%22 443 Critics have suggested that Wharton's historical context inhibited her from creating the Künstlerromans that characterize most writers' beginning efforts.
en 1999 Madelyn Jablon Black Metafiction http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UPXe_iVg7O4C&pg=PA56&dq=%22African+American+k%C3%BCnstlerromans%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&ei=0c4DTMb_Np3iygSV8t2aDQ&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false 56 The definition calls for a plot that revolves around an artist-protagonist in conflict with society, but the plot of African American künstlerromans cannot be reduced to this conflict.
en 1999 Anne Quéma The Agon of Modernism http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d6bb1ibEX5MC&pg=PA150&dq=%22theory+should+make+Kunstlerromans%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&ei=Ys8DTIrUL53iygSV8t2aDQ&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22theory%20should%20make%20Kunstlerromans%22&f=false 150 In Theory of the Avant-Garde, part of Peter Bürger's general thesis is that aestheticism reaches a peak when art has become its own topic. This in theory should make Kunstlerromans like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Tarr works of aestheticism.
en 2004 Jeffrey W Hunter Contemporary Literary Criticism 191 http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=i88DTO6DHZKyywTBicz8DA&cd=1&num=100&as_brr=0&id=wGQrlHsxjmkC&dq=%22indeed+K%C3%BCnstlerromans%22&q=%22indeed+Kunstlerromans%22 224 These two ‘autobiographical’ novels are, of course, Bildungsromans – indeed Künstlerromans – as well as genealogical allegorizings of historical and metatextual particularities.
Usage notes
The plural form de Künstlerromans is inconsistent with the word’s etymology. The etymologically consistent plural is en Künstlerromane. In German, de Künstlerromans is the genitive singular form, grammatically equivalent to the English en Künstlerroman’s or “of [a] Künstlerroman”.
German
Pronunciation
de De-Künstlerromans.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
de noun form m-s
de Künstlerroman gen s