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The Aesthetics of Authentic...
As a concept that increasingly gains importance in contemporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a site of tearing tensions between the fictional and the real, original and fake, margin and centre, the same and the other. The essays collected in this volume explore this paradoxical nature of authenticity in the context of various media. They give ample proof of the fact that authenticity, which depends on giving the impression of being inherent or natural, found not created, frequently turns out to be the result of a careful aesthetic construction that depends on the use of identifiable techniques with the aim of achieving certain effects for certain reasons
Reviewed in: GMK-Newsletter, 6 (2012) KULT_online, 36 (2013), Sascha Simons
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monografia Rebiun31091736 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun31091736 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr -n--------- 220221s2014 gw o ||| 0 eng d 3-8394-1757-0 10.14361/transcript.9783839417577 doi UPVA 998797700803706 UAM 991008136609904211 CBUC 991013161520006708 DE-B1597 eng DE-B1597 rda eng gw DE SOC052000 bisacsh 810.9384 The Aesthetics of Authenticity Medial Constructions of the Real Wolfgang Funk, Florian Gro, Irmtraud Huber 1st ed Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014 Bielefeld Bielefeld transcript Verlag 1 online resource (285 p.) 1 online resource (285 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Kultur- und Medientheorie Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Exploring the Empty Plinth 9 Authenticity as an Aesthetic Notion 25 Found Objects 41 Monolithic Authenticity and Fake News 63 Authentic Bodies 91 'The Real Thing' 121 Real Lives - Living Wild 141 Monica Ali and the Suspension of Disbelief 163 Poet and the Roots 187 The Dilettantish Construction of the Extraordinary or the Authenticity of the Artificial 207 'Brooklyn Zack Is Real' 237 Authentic Simulacra or The Aura of Repetition 261 Contributors 281 As a concept that increasingly gains importance in contemporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a site of tearing tensions between the fictional and the real, original and fake, margin and centre, the same and the other. The essays collected in this volume explore this paradoxical nature of authenticity in the context of various media. They give ample proof of the fact that authenticity, which depends on giving the impression of being inherent or natural, found not created, frequently turns out to be the result of a careful aesthetic construction that depends on the use of identifiable techniques with the aim of achieving certain effects for certain reasons Reviewed in: GMK-Newsletter, 6 (2012) KULT_online, 36 (2013), Sascha Simons 1\u Wolfgang Funk (M.A.) teaches English literature and culture at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. His research interests include contemporary drama, utopian literature, and current ethical debates 2\u Florian Gro (M.A.) teaches American literature and culture at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. His research interests include television series, comics and graphic novels, and contemporary fiction 3\u Irmtraud Huber (M.A.) teaches English literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her research interests include contemporary literature, non-realist literature, and literary theory English Media; Authenticity; Culture; Representation; Aesthetics; Television; Literature; Music; Media Aesthetics; Theory of Literature; Cultural Theory; Media Theory; Media Studies 1\u Funk, Wolfgang editor. edt 2\u Gro, Florian editor. edt 3\u Huber, Irmtraud editor. edt 3-8376-1757-2 1-322-00227-4 Cultural and media studies