A major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time, autobiographical writing has developed manifold types and forms. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes diaries, self-portraits, autofiction as well as medial transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. Special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre.weiterlesen