Bildungsroman

Prose genres Poetry genres Dramatic genres

• Comedy
• Libretto
• Play
  • historical
  • moral
• Satire
• Script
• Tragedy
• Tragicomedy

History

• Ancient
• Medieval
  • Early medieval
• Early modern
  • Renaissance
• 18th
• 19th
• 20th
• Contemporary
  • 21st

Media

• Voice
  • audiobook
  • speech
• Writing
  • book
  • digital electronics
    • ebook
  • manuscript

Lists and outlines

• Outline
• Glossary
• Books
• Epic
  • folk-epics
• Poets
• Writers
• Movements
  • poetry groups
• Cycles
• Literary awards
  • poetry
• Short story collection / Cycle
• Lost literary work
  • lacuna

Theory and criticism

• Sociology
• Magazines
• Composition
• Language
• Narrative
• Comparative
• Circle
• Society
• Post-literate Society
• Peer
• Feud
• Estate
• Workshop
  • Circle

In literary criticism, a bildungsroman (German pronunciation:) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age). The term comes from the German words Bildung ('formation' or 'education') and Roman ('novel').