Paradoxes of Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept

Published by transcript Verlag 2012

Paradoxes of Authenticity

Studies on a Critical Concept

Edited by: Julia Straub

In the series Kultur- und Medientheorie

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839418192

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About this book

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.

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Julia Straub is a senior lecturer in North American Literature at the University of Berne (Switzerland). Her research interests are the reception of Dante in English literature, transatlantic mobility in the eighteenth century and melodrama.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction The Paradoxes of Authenticity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Mapping Authenticity
Authenticity – The Signature of Western Exceptionalism? Aleida Assmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
The Ambiguousness of the Authentic Authenticity between Reference, Fictionality and Fake in Modern and Contemporary Art Susanne Knaller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Time, Alterity, Hybridity and ‘Exemplary Universality’ Some Remarks on Alessandro Ferrara’s Concept of ‘Reflective Authenticity’ Thomas Claviez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Representing the Authentic
The Rhetorics of Authenticity Photographic Representations of War Thomas Susanka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
A Quest for Authenticity Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated Irmtraud Huber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
“I Want My Past Back” The Quest for Memory and Authenticity in Helen Dunmore’s Talking to the Dead Christa Schönfelder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Authentic Lives
Posthumanist Panic Cinema Defining a Genre Scott Loren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Performative Authenticity Identity Constructions among Asian Second-Generation Youths in Great Britain Sabine Nunius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Authenticity and Authorship
“That is Real” Oprah Winfrey and the ‘James Frey Controversy’ Anna Iatsenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Reclaiming “The Grandeur of Inspiration” Authenticity, Repetition and Parody in William Blake’s Milton Diane Piccitto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Coming Home Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park, Authorship and Heidegger’s Concept of Authenticity Julia Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 284
Keywords: Literature; Culture; Film; Media; Cultural Studies; Media Aesthetics; General Literature Studies; American Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839418192