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

Name: Counterfeit Culture
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108428484
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9781108428484

by Rob Turner

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

ISBN-10 1108428487

ISBN-13 9781108428484

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 20th, 2019

Print length 232 Pages

Weight 52 grams

Dimensions 16.20 x 23.60 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -

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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. 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.

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