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Competing Perspectives: Figures of Image Control

Competing Perspectives: Figures of Image Control

Boschung, Dietrich
Blamberger, Günter

Paperback

Series: Morphomata, Book 42

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3770564901
ISBN13: 9783770564903
Publisher: Brill Fink
Published: Sep 6 2019
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.21 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.31
Language: English
Autobiographies and self portraits can be understood as figures of image control that try to express and secure a person's reputation for contemporary and future generations. However, there have always been competing perspectives between self-descriptions and descriptions of oneself by others. It is this interplay that determines the current effects and the lasting impact of self-fashionings - and produces the distinction between Dichtung und Wahrheit (facts and fiction), between illusion and reality. Morphomata's annual conference thus questions the cultural, historical, and medial figures of these distinctions in case studies from antiquity to the present.

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