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Article: The Radical Subject: social Change and the Self in Recent German Autobiography.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2001
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The Radical Subject: Social Change and the Self in Recent German Autobiography. By ANDREW PLOWMAN. (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, 13) Bern, New York, and Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. 1998. 168 pp. 17 [pounds sterling].
In his introduction Andrew Plowman berates the reluctance of studies of New Subjectivity to address aesthetic questions and the tensions inherent in autobiography. He is equally critical of the general neglect by those critics focusing on autobiography of social and political issues, and is therefore himself determined to situate his chosen texts in the historical moment of their production, and to explore the significance of ...