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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman

A bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.roˌmaːn]; German: “novel of education”) is a novelistic genre that arose during the German Enlightenment, in which the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a (usually young) protagonist. An example of this would be Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.