Counterfeit Culture: Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic Since 1960

ISBN-13: 9781108428484 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Rob Turner

Opis

Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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.