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The article critiques the works of Chilean writer Camila Gutiérrez Berner. It analyzes her autobiographic book "Joven y alocada: La hermosa y desconocida historia de una Evangeláis" and her novel "No te ama." The themes of her works are discussed, including coming-of-age, bisexual love triangles and apostasy. The metanarrative structure of her works is also described.

A literary criticism of the novels "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is presented. It suggests that Alcott was influenced by Goethe, noting that both novels are "Bildungsromane," or coming-of-age stories. Parallels between Goethe's depiction of becoming a man in the late-Enlightenment period and Alcott's description of Civil War-era America are explored.

A literary analysis of the memoir "Stealing Buddha's Dinner" by Bich Minh Nguyen is presented. It looks at how Nguyen relays her experiences as a Vietnamese refugee attempting to assimilate to white culture in the U.S., often doing so through discussions of food. The criticism goes to suggest that Nguyen's memoir is similar to a Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, and her rejection of junk food symbolizes her acceptance as marginalized.

The article examines the works of authors Henry Fielding, Christoph Martin Wieland and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. According to the article, there is some sort of similarity among all three authors in their writing styles. It states that Fielding had a major influence on the emergence of Bildungsromans which is regarded as Germany's greatest contribution to prose fiction.

Chapter I of the book "Fielding, Wieland, Goethe and the Rise of the Novel" is presented. It features novelists Henry Fielding and his work. According to the author, Fielding's work has helped in shaping English literature and had an impact on Germany. The chapter also illustrates his importance for the success of a Bildungsroman which is largely contingent upon the credible evocation of the contact of hero and the outer world.

The article focuses the on book "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby. It outlines the genre of the novel as bildungsroman and realism; novel of education, how the novel tracked the central character's story from childhood to adulthood and their quest of identity, how this form is also seen in the book "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens.

A subject index for the book "Female Bildungsroman: A Postmodern Reading," by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston is presented.

The sources cited within this issue are presented including "Rethinking the Bildungsroman," by Frederick Amrine, "Gender Trouble," by Judith Butler, and "Diving Deep and Surfacing: Woman Writers on Spiritual Quest," by Carol P. Christ.

Chapter 5 of the book "Female Bildungsroman: A Postmodern Reading" is presented. It focuses on the book "China Men," by Maxine Hong Kingston which is about the political agenda of Chinese Americans to claim America. It highlights the three levels of dialogues Kingston used in her book, including the dialogue between Chinese Americans on American history, intellectual dialogue between the narrator and her father, and a dialogue among Chinese legends on American stories.

Chapter 4 of the book "Female Bildungsroman: A Postmodern Reading" is presented. It focuses on the autobiographical book "The Woman Warrior," by Maxine Hong Kingston, which is a Chinese American story about the first-person narrator who explores her identity formation in relation to her mother and female relatives. It further states that the book is of a Bildungsroman genre.

Chapter 2 of the book "Female Bildungsroman: A Postmodern Reading" is presented. It explores the double Bildungsroman novel "The Bluest Eyes," by Toni Morrison, which is about a black girl who was raped by her own father, Pecola Breedlove and the narrator Claudia MacTeer. The novel focuses on the compounding work of racism, sexism, and classism in the Bildung of black girls and highlights racial duality.

The article examines the work of authors Henry Fielding, Christoph Martin Wieland and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. According to the article, there is some sort of similarity among all three authors in their writing styles. It states that Fielding had a major influence in the emergence of Bildungsromans which is regarded as Germany's greatest contribution to prose fiction.