By considering the book as a Bildungsroman, a title, "American Bildungsroman" is proposed tentatively to show the productivity of this genre.

在论述成长小说之时，本论文尝试性地提出了“美国成长小说”这一称谓，体现出这一文类极大的可塑性。

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That has a typical Bildungsroman structure, the structure of a story about a boy who goes out from his home and sort of becomes a man through his travels.

这里具备一个典型成长小说的框架，故事结构讲的是,一个背井离乡的男孩,在旅途中长大成人。

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There is a laconic, world-weary protagonist in the person of Inky Lautner, whose negotiation of his urban underworld works as a sort of noir bildungsroman.

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