GENRE CHARACTERS OF THE BILDUNGSROMAN: THEORETICAL SEARCH IN THE LITERARY CRITICISMOF THE ХVIII – XIX CENTURY

Abstract

The article studies the genesis of studies on the Bildungsroman in the XIX century in the German literature, philosophy and aesthetics (works of Ch.F. von Blanckenburg, G.E. Lessing, G.W.F. Hegel, J.G. Herder, K. Morgenstern), which has demonstrated a deviation from the ideas of this genre varieties as a truly German, and opened the prospect of studies on the material of other literatures – mainly the French and the English ones.