Abstract

Acknowledgements

Introduction Bildungsroman-Toward a New Definition

Chapter 1 Bildungsroman and Autobiography: a Study of Their Relationship

  1.1 Autobiography: Toward a New Definition

  1.2 Bildungsroman: a Novel-form Autobiography

  1.3 Bildungsroman Vs. Autobiography-form novel

Chapter 2 Autobiography into Autobiograph: David Copperfield as One Version of the Growing Dickens

  2.1 Dickens and his David Copperfield: an Introduction

  2.2 David Copperfield: an Autobiography of David Copperfield

  2.3 David Copperfield and the Young Dickens: a Comparison

Chapter 3 Life out of Life: Stephen Dedalus as a Serf Portrait of the Young Joyce 57

  3.1 James Joyce and his A Portrait of the Artist as a YoungMan

  3.2 Stephen: a Recreation of the Young Joyce as the Artis

  3.3 Stephen the Artist andJoyce the Artist: a Comparison

  3.4 David CopperfieM Vs. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Chapter 4 China Narratives, Mediation and the Problematic of Readership in Fifth Chinese Daughter and The Woman Warrior

  4.1 The Authors and Context

  4.2 Literature Review

  4.3 Mediation of Readership

Chapter 5  The Growing Up of the Self and the Politics of Narration in Douglass's Autobiographies of 1845 and 1855

  5.1 The Author and Context

  5.2 Comparison and Contrast: Autobiographies of 1845 Vs. 1855

Conclusion Bildungsroman and autobiography: Toward a New Conception

  1 Change de role: Bildungsroman Vs. Autobiography

  2 Bildungsroman and Autobiography Reconsidered

  3 An Ending and a New Beginning

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