The Pathos of Authenticity
American Passions of the Real
edited by Ulla Haselstein, MaryAnn Snyder-Korber and Andrew Gross
Hardback (Published)
(January 2010)
ISBN: 9783825357061
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $55.00
Out of stock
Throughout the last decade, observers of American culture have drawn attention to an emerging transformation: an apparent shift from postmodern irony and play to a revalorization of the real and authentic. This “turn” in cultural values has been linked to general conservative tendencies and the after-effects of September 11 as well as a lingering sense of crisis following post- Cold War triumphalism. ‘The Pathos of Authenticity’ investigates this new valorization of the authentic and tests the explanations offered for the various “returns of the real” detectible in the current moment. In close readings and case studies, contributions hone in on aspects of American contemporaneity particularly shaped by discourses of authenticity. Topics include the significance of things in a world constituted via media representations, the prominence of trauma theory, renewed interest in autobiography, the pathos of religious experience, and efforts to define ethnicity as a source of authentic feeling.
- Edited by Andrew Gross
- Edited by Ulla Haselstein
- Edited by MaryAnn Snyder-Korber
Other Titles in this Series
American Studies/Shifting Gears
A Publication of the DFG Research Network 'The Futures of (European) American Studies'
Volume 185
Migration – Miscegenation – Transculturation
Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century
Volume 114
Temporality in American Filmic Autobiography
Cinema, Automediality and Grammatology with 'Film Portrait' and 'Joyce at 34'
Volume 187
The Americanization of Human Rights
Iranian, African, and Chinese Lives in American Autobiography
Volume 290
Crossroads in American Studies
Transnational and Biocultural Encounters. Essays in Honor of Rudiger Kunow
Volume 269
The Native American Declaration of Independence
William Apess's Reflections of Ethnic Consciousness
Volume 156
Faith Matters
Religion, Ethnicity, and Survival in Louise Erdrich's and Toni Morrison's Fiction
Volume 149
Narrative Instability
Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Volume 305
Deliberately Out of Bounds
Women's Work on Classical Myth in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Volume 282
Transnational Mediations
Negotiating Popular Culture between Europe and the United States
Volume 261
John F. Kennedy and the ‘Thousand Days’
New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration
Volume 144
Performing America Abroad
Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism
Volume 297
Similar Books
![Book cover: Transitive Media [Philosophy]](https://isd.stisonbooks.com/images/books/native/9781804132333.jpg?asset_id=66970)
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation?
Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American South
Argumentation, Persuasion und Manipulation in Medientexten und -diskursen
Beiträge zur kontrastiven Medienlinguistik
Buchblogs zwischen Passion und Profession
Zur Diskursivierung digitaler literaturbezogener Anschlusskommunikation als Arbeit
Das Bild des Flüchtlings im Deutschen und im Polnischen
Lexikographische Erfassung und Presseberichterstattung 2016–2017
Die Erinnerung der Hydra
Das Quilombo von Palmares in Geschichte und Gedächtnis (ca. 1595–1995): Sklaverei, Rassismus und Freiheit in Brasilien und entlang des Atlantiks
Digitale Medien und Religionsunterricht
Ein domänenspezifischer Beitrag zu einer kritischen Medienbildung unter Berücksichtigung medien-, bildungs- und lerntheoretischer Perspektiven
Jugend im Film
Die Konstruktion einer transformativen Lebensphase als Spiegel kultureller Entwicklungen
Transmedia Festivals
Audiosoziale Gemeinschaften zwischen künstlerischem Experiment und Ökonomisierung
Literature, Translation, and the Politics of Meaning
Polish, American, and German Literary Traditions
Perspectives on Values
The Network of Satire and Humor, the Tragic and the Absurd, the Grotesque and the Monstrous, Play and Irony, Parody and the Comic Mode
Volume 323
