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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Turner, Rob (1985-....)
Titre(s) : Counterfeit culture [Texte imprimé] : truth and authenticity in the American prose epic since 1960 / Rob Turner
Publication : Cambridge (GB) ; New York : Cambridge university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (ix, 221 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 182
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Note(s) : Series numbering corrected to 181 per publisher. - Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Authenticité (philosophie) -- Dans la littérature
Épopées américaines -- 1945-.... -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- 1945-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108428484. - ISBN 1108428487 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457075411
Notice n° :
FRBNF45707541
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: America and the "Way to the devil" -- ; Marguerite Young's flood of
consciousness -- ; William Gaddis and the "novel-writing-machine" of Andy Warhol --
; "Paper reality": William S. Burroughs and the cut-up method -- ; "Bad history":
Thomas Pynchon and the apocryphal epic -- ; "History shambles on": William T. Vollmann
and the Seven dreams cycle -- ; Conclusion: "Every story has two tails".
