- Series
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2010
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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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 Das Antlitz des Weltkrieges to Der gefährliche Augenblick: 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 schäme 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.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dahlke, Birgit.
Tate, Dennis.
Woods, Roger, 1949-
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Das Antlitz des Weltkrieges to Der gefährliche Augenblick: 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 schäme 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.
