Funk / Groß / Huber The Aesthetics of Authenticity

Medial Constructions of the Real
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8394-1757-7
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Kultur- und Medientheorie

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Funk, Wolfgang

Groß, Florian

Huber, Irmtraud

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medienphilosophie, Medienethik, Medienrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Funk, Wolfgang
Wolfgang Funk (M.A.) lehrt Britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Leibniz Universität Hannover.

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 Bern, Switzerland. Her research interests include contemporary literature, non-realist literature, and literary theory.