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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=literary_criticism">literary criticism</a>, a <b>bildungsroman</b>  is a <a href="page.php?w=literary_genre">literary genre</a> that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the <a href="page.php?w=protagonist">protagonist</a> from childhood to adulthood (<a href="page.php?w=coming_of_age">coming of age</a>). The term comes from the German words <i>[[Bildung]]</i> ('formation' or 'education') and <i>Roman</i> ('novel').</p>

<p><big>Origin</big></p>
<p>The term was coined in 1819 by <a href="page.php?w=Philology">philologist</a></p><p>
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