Culture(s) and Authenticity

Anna Warso

ISBN 10: 3631732392 / ISBN 13: 9783631732397

Published by Peter Lang Jul 2018, 2018

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Neuware -This book addresses epistemological and political aspects of the discursive pursuit of authenticity and various ways in which the inauthentic is devalued and marginalized. The essays critically analyze various means by which the authentic is searched for, staged, admired, dismissed, replicated or simply taken for granted. What is at work in such discursive practices is a poetics of imitation. This is seen as a paradoxical kind of poetics which renounces the authenticity of the created text for the sake of its semi-religious offering to the origin. Such a divination of the Authentic posits translation as an idolatrous act accompanied by a suspicion of its simultaneously being iconoclastic. 214 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Culture(s) and Authenticity
• Publisher: Peter Lang Jul 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631732392
• ISBN 13: 9783631732397
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 17D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 395 grams

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Synopsis

This book addresses epistemological and political aspects of the discursive pursuit of authenticity and various ways in which the inauthentic is devalued and marginalized. The essays critically analyze various means by which the authentic is searched for, staged, admired, dismissed, replicated or simply taken for granted. What is at work in such discursive practices is a poetics of imitation. This is seen as a paradoxical kind of poetics which renounces the authenticity of the created text for the sake of its semi-religious offering to the origin. Such a divination of the Authentic posits translation as an idolatrous act accompanied by a suspicion of its simultaneously being iconoclastic.

About the Author

Agnieszka Pantuchowicz and Anna Warso are assistant professors at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland, where they teach literature and translation.