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Aesthetics of authenticity : medial constructions of the real /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Funk, Wolfgang (Editor ), Gross, Florian (Editor ), Huber, Irmtraud, 1983- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld [Germany] : Transcript, [2012]
Colección:Cultural and media studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.
  • 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.