Competing Perspectives: Figures of Image Control: 42 (Morphomata) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3770564901 ISBN 13: 9783770564903

Publisher: Brill U Fink, 2019

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Gunter Blamberger is Professor of Modern German Literature, Dietrich Boschung Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cologne. Both are directors of the International College "Morphomata: Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations" at the University of Cologne.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill U Fink
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3770564901
• ISBN 13: 9783770564903
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Blamberger Gunter, Boschung Dietrich