Die Wiederkehr der Aura im Zeitalter technischer Reproduzierbarkeit: Musik, Literatur und Medien in Peter Handkes Versuch über die Jukebox

Document Type

Journal Article

Role

Author

Standard Number

0026-7503

Journal Title

Modern Austrian Literature

Volume

33

Issue

2

First Page

55

Last Page

72

Publication Date

2000

Abstract

In contrast to Benjamin, who linked the loss of the aura to the technical reproduciblity of the artwork, Handke's text strips the music box of its commodity character, as it were, and re-establishes the auratic appearance in the age of mass culture. The narrative search for a lost artefact of the culture industry turns into a complex reconstruction of biographical, aesthetic, and cultural-historical traces. (author-supplied description)

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