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The Aesthetics of Authenticity

by Wolfgang Funk
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Book cover type: Misc
  • ISBN13: 9783837617573
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  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
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  • Original Price: USD 45.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 408 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies

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 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.

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.

Florian Groß (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.

Irmtraud Huber (M.A.) teaches English literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland. Her research interests include contemporary literature, non-realist literature, and literary theory.

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