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German life writing in the twentieth century /

"Life writing," a genre classification increasingly accepted among scholars of literature and other disciplines, encompasses not just autobiography and biography, but also memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews. Whether produced as events unfolded or long after the event, all forms of l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dahlke, Birgit, Tate, Dennis, Woods, Roger, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2010.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.