Challenging the Bildung Tradition: The Heterogeneity of Formation in Peter Ackroyd's English Music

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2025
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Abstract
Peter Ackroyd’s English Music (1992) occupies an ambivalent position between the traditions of the English Bildungsroman and the experimental tendencies of postmodern novel. While it follows the formal trajectory of personal growth and self-realization characteristics of the classical Bildungsroman, its employment of dream visions, supernatural motifs, and intertextual experimentation disrupts conventional realism. The novel thereby becomes both an act of preservation and subversion—upholding the authority of the English canon while simultaneously interrogating its premises through postmodern devices such as magical realism, intertextuality, pastiche, the carnivalesque, and metafiction. The coexistence of realism and metaphysics, of historical consciousness and imaginative vision, makes English Music a paradigmatic example of the postmodern Bildungsroman. Drawing upon these critical insights, this article examines how English Music operates as a self-conscious negotiation between tradition and innovation. The study also argues that Ackroyd’s narrative reflects a hybrid literary form that both celebrates and deconstructs the characteristics of English Bildungsroman as a genre.
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Authors Petru Golban
Journal Kırklareli Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
Year 2025
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10.47140/kusbder.1824050
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https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/kusbder/article/1824050
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