Paradoxes of Authenticity : : Studies on a Critical Concept / / ed. by Julia Straub.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Assmann, Aleida,; Claviez, Thomas,; Huber, Irmtraud,; Iatsenko, Anna,; Knaller, Susanne,; Loren, Scott,; Nunius, Sabine,; Piccitto, Diane,; Schönfelder, Christa,; Straub, Julia,; Susanka, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Straub, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Mapping Authenticity --; Authenticity – The Signature of Western Exceptionalism? --; The Ambiguousness of the Authentic --; Time, Alterity, Hybridity and ‘Exemplary Universality’ --; Representing the Authentic --; The Rhetorics of Authenticity --; A Quest for Authenticity --; “I Want My Past Back” --; Authentic Lives --; Posthumanist Panic Cinema --; Performative Authenticity --; Authenticity and Authorship --; “That is Real” --; Reclaiming “The Grandeur of Inspiration” --; Coming Home --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839418192; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370744
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839418192?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Julia Straub.

Authenticity is one of the most crucial, but also most contested concepts in literary and cultural studies. Hollowed out by postmodernist theory, it paradoxically enough persists as an important backdrop for the discussion of literature, film, and the visual arts. The essays in this volume explore perspectives on authenticity and case studies dealing with »the authentic«. They thereby seek to show how the paradoxical persistence of authenticity in contemporary critical discourse can be turned into a fruitful point of departure for an analysis of literary texts, but also films, and the visual arts.