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Noun
1. novel about one's education, spiritual growth, etc.; Bildungsroman
Wikipedia definition
2. BildungsromanIn literary criticism, bildungsroman or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, and in which character change is thus extremely important. The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Karl Morgenstern in his university lectures, and later famously reprised by Wilhelm Dilthey, who legitimized it in 1870 and popularized it in 1905.
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