The Aesthetics of Authenticity : : Medial Constructions of the Real /

The Aesthetics of Authenticity : : Medial Constructions of the Real / / ed. by Wolfgang Funk, Irmtraud Huber, Florian Groß.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bousquet, David,
Eis, Melanie,
Funk, Wolfgang,
Gross, Florian,
Huber, Irmtraud,
Hulse, Seth,
Knaller, Susanne,
Mettler, Melanie,
Palitzsch, Francesca Nadja,
Schmalfuss, Sven,
Seita, Sophie,
Weixler, Antonius,
HerausgeberIn:
Funk, Wolfgang,
Groß, Florian,
Huber, Irmtraud,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2012
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Kultur- und Medientheorie
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Exploring the Empty Plinth
  • Fragmentations
  • Authenticity as an Aesthetic Notion
  • Found Objects
  • Monolithic Authenticity and Fake News
  • Authentic Bodies
  • Contestations
  • »The Real Thing«
  • Real Lives – Living Wild
  • Monica Ali and the Suspension of Disbelief
  • Performances
  • Poet and the Roots
  • The Dilettantish Construction of the Extraordinary or the Authenticity of the Artificial
  • »Brooklyn Zack Is Real«
  • Authentic Simulacra or The Aura of Repetition
  • Contributors

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