Künstlerromans

English

Noun

Künstlerromans

1. plural of Künstlerroman
   • 1994, Jack Salzman, Prospects, volume 19, page 443:

     Critics have suggested that Wharton's historical context inhibited her from creating the Künstlerromans that characterize most writers' beginning efforts.

   • 1999, Madelyn Jablon, Black Metafiction, page 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.

   • 1999, Anne Quéma, The Agon of Modernism, page 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.

   • 2004, Jeffrey W Hunter, Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume 191, page 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 Künstlerromans is inconsistent with the word’s etymology. The etymologically consistent plural is Künstlerromane. In German, Künstlerromans is the genitive singular form, grammatically equivalent to the English Künstlerroman’s or “of [a] Künstlerroman”.

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Noun

Künstlerromans m sg

1. genitive singular of Künstlerroman