Competing Perspectives: Figures of Image Control - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3770564901 ISBN 13 : 9783770564903

Editeur : 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill U Fink
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3770564901
• ISBN 13: 9783770564903
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Éditeur: Blamberger Gunter, Boschung Dietrich
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible