The Female, Bildungsroman, By Carol Lazzaro Weis - 1083 Words

Vanessa Bethea 355:201 Flynn 24 March 2016 Literature Review #4 Article: Lazzaro-Weis, Carol. â€Å"The Female Bildungsroman: Calling It into Question†. NWSA Journal 2.1 (1990): 16–34. Web. Author: Carol Lazzaro-Weis is the President of the American Association of Italian Studies, the largest associate of university professors of Italian in North America and serves on several editorial boards. Professor Lazzaro-Weis has been appointed to serve on the International Advisory Board for The Centre of Contemporary Women’s Writing. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Italian literature, genre, French women writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, feminist theory, etc. In addition to numerous articles on French and Italian writers, she has published the following books: From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional modes in Italian Women’s Writing, La Signorina and Other Stories, Confused Epiphanies: L’abbà © Prà ©vost and the Romance Tradition, etc. She is currently preparing a book-length manuscript on women’s historical novels in Italy, France, Francophone Canada and the Caribbean. (Carol Lazzaro-Weis - Department of Romance Language Literatures - University of Missouri. Carol Lazzaro-Weis - Department of Romance Language Literatures - University of Missouri. N.p., n.d. Web.) Brief Summary: The Female â€Å"Bildungsroman†: Calling It into Question by Carol Lazzaro-Weis discusses the term bildungsroman as it relates to female