Description: Combines an overview of academic approaches to "life writing" with case studies from crucial periods of twentieth-century German history.
Brief description: Dennis Tate is professor of German Literature at the University of Bath.
Review Quotes: [A] very interesting volume of essays . . . . [S]ucceeds in being more than the sum of its parts and offers a range of useful models for analyzing life-writing.-- "MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW"