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Subject(s)

• Autobiography [Browse]
• Germany—Biography—History and criticism [Browse]
• German prose literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Germany—In literature [Browse]
• Literature and history—Germany—History—20th century [Browse]

Related name

• Dahlke, Birgit [Browse]
• Tate, Dennis [Browse]
• Woods, Roger, 1949- [Browse]

Series

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: the purposes and problems of German life writing in the twentieth century / Roger Woods
• Life writing and writing lives: ego documents in historical perspective / Mary Fulbrook
• From Erlebnis to Erinnerung: rereading soldiers' letters and photographs from the First World War / Holger Brohm
• From the physiognomy of the Great War to the dangerous moment: Ernst Junger, photography, autobiography, and modernity / J. J. Long
• Persuasive illusions of the self: Albert Speer's life writing and public discourse about Germany's Nazi past / Magnus Brechtken
• The shoah before the shoah: the literary technique of allusion in Elias Canetti's autobiography / Anne Peiter
• "Ich schame mich meiner augen" (I'm ashamed of my eyes): photography and autobiographical identities in Grete Weil's Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben / Joanne Sayner
• "Mich in variationen erzahlen": Gunter Grass and the ethics of autobiography / Rebecca Braun
• Voyeurism? autobiographies by children of the perpetrators: Niklas Frank's Der Vater: Eine abrechnung (1987) and Meine deutsche mutter (2005) / Birgit Dahlke
• Dismembering the past, remembering the self: an interrogation of disability narratives by Luise Habel and Christa Reinig / Pauline Eyre
• "Schicht um schicht" - the evolution of Fred Wander's life writing project in the GDR era and beyond / Dennis Tate
• Thought patterns and explanatory strategies in the life writing of high-ranking GDR party officials after the wende / Ute Hirsekorn
• "Ein reines phantasieprodukt" or "hostile biography"? Gunter de Bruyn's Vierzig jahre and the Stasi files / Sara Jones.

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ISBN

• 9781571133137 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1571133135 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010037033

OCLC

648932721

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