Counterfeit Culture
Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; 181;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 16 October 2025
- ISBN 9781108449731
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Weight 345 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 b/w illus. 696
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Short description:
Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.
MoreLong description:
Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. Examining six attempts to forge an American prose epic since 1960, this study goes on to trace a national tradition of inauthenticity, stretching back across four centuries. In works by authors such as Pynchon, Gaddis and Burroughs, the contemporary turn away from truth and authenticity can be seen as a return to an established line of literary tricksters and confidence men, with tropes of fraud and artifice running deep in the American grain. Combining archival work with historically-inflected analysis of literary narrative, this book ranges through questions of identity, technology, history, and music in its engagement. From Marguerite Young's inquiry into psychological disintegration to William T. Vollmann's ongoing cycle of false histories, the study introduces a new reading of the American epic.
'Citing leaders in contemporary postmodern scholarship, and with repeated and acute references to American literary history (particularly Emerson and Melville), Turner (Univ. of Exeter, UK) revisits the complex, multivalenced, postmodernist works of Marguerite Young, William Gaddis, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon ... Turner does a good job of situating these authors' works in contemporary scholarship ... This is a timely treatment of American postmodernist prose.' C. B. Ewing, Choice
Table of Contents:
Introduction: America and the 'way to the devil'; 1. Marguerite Young's flood of consciousness; 2. William Gaddis and the 'novel-writing-machine' of Andy Warhol; 3. 'Paper reality': William S. Burroughs and the cut-up method; 4. 'Bad history': Thomas Pynchon and the apocryphal epic; 5. 'History shambles on': William T. Vollmann and the Seven Dreams Cycle; Conclusion: 'every story has two tails'; Bibliography; Index.
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