The Aesthetics of Authenticity
Medial Constructions of the Real
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2014
284 pages
978-3-8394-1757-7 (ISBN)
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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.
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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
- »The Real Thing«. Authenticating Strategies in Hemingway's Fiction
- Real Lives - Living Wild. Authenticity, Wilderness, and the Postmodern Robinsonade in James Hawes's Speak for England and Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods
- Monica Ali and the Suspension of Disbelief
- PERFORMANCES
- Poet and the Roots. Authenticity in the Works of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Dilettantish Construction of the Extraordinary and the Authenticity of the Artificial. Tracing Strategies for Success in German Popular Entertainment Shows
- »Brooklyn Zack is Real«. Irony and Sincere Authenticity in 30 Rock
- Authentic Simulacra or the Aura of Repetition. Experiencing Authenticity in Tom McCarthy's Remainder
- Contributors
