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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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