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Title:

German life writing in the twentieth century / edited by Birgit Dahlke, Dennis Tate, and Roger Woods.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

vi, 216 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Autobiography.
Germany--Biography--History and criticism.
German prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Germany--In literature.
Literature and history--Germany--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Dahlke, Birgit.
Tate, Dennis.
Woods, Roger, 1949-

Notes:

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.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

ISBN:

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)648932721

LCCN:

2010037033

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)