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1 online resource (285 pages) |
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Cultural and media studies |
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Cultural and media studies.
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| Contents |
"Brooklyn Zack is Real". Irony and Sincere Authenticity in 30 RockAuthentic Simulacra or the Aura of Repetition. Experiencing Authenticity in Tom McCarthy's Remainder; Contributors |
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Cover The Aesthetics of Authenticity; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Exploring the Empty Plinth. The Aesthetics of Authenticity; FRAGMENTATIONS; Authenticity as an Aesthetic Notion. Normative and Non-Normative Concepts in Modern and Contemporary Poetics; Found Objects. Narrative (as) Reconstruction in Jennifer Egan's. A Visit from the Goon Squad; Monolithic Authenticity and Fake News. Stephen Colbert's Megalomania; Authentic Bodies. Genome(s) vs. Gender Norms in Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and BioShock; CONTESTATIONS |
| Summary |
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 identifi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 17, 2015) |
| Subject |
Authenticity (Philosophy)
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Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
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Arts -- Philosophy.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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Arts -- Philosophy
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Authenticity (Philosophy)
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Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Funk, Wolfgang, editor
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Gross, Florian, editor
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Huber, Irmtraud, 1983- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783839417577 |
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3839417570 |
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