The Modern Language Review

Ich, Welt und Gott: Autobiographik im 17. Jahrhundert.(Book review)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 2006 | Copyright

Ich, Welt und Gott: Autobiographik im 17. Jahrhundert. By EVA KORMANN. (Selbstzeugnisse der Neuzeit, 13) Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Bohlau. 2004. x+ 357 pp. 39.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-412-16903-x.

This is a very important study, based on a ground-breaking method for analysing autobiographical texts from early periods. Early texts are often examined through an ill-fitting theory of autobiography developed from eighteenth-century writing. Eva Kormann rightly rejects this teleological approach; the key to her analysis is historicity. She examines subjectivity in…

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