Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American literature.
Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American literature.
Produktdetails
Produktdetails
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Rob Turner is a Lecturer in twentieth and twenty-first-century Literature at the University of Exeter. He studied for his doctorate at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. His research is focused on American literature, with particular interests in the epic mode, and the poetics of hip-hop. He is a regular contributor to the Wire magazine.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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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