The first volume uses case studies as exemplars to illuminate the historical development of the genre, while the second volume presents chapters on a theory of biography focussing on central aspects such as the connection between biography, archive and cultural memory, biography and mediality (writing, film, photography), biography and psychoanalysis, biography and gender, and on questions of intercultural communication through biographies. The work is edited by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna.

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Bernhard Fetz, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Wien und Universität Wien, Österreich.