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02836aam a2200385 i 4500 001 36141FBC5D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200303010150 008 181109s2019 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018051984 020 $a 1108428487 020 $a 9781108428484 035 $a (OCoLC)1079411189 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d HLS $d MNN $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS169 E63 T87 2019 100 1 $a Turner, Rob, $d 1985- $e author. 245 10 $a Counterfeit culture : $b truth and authenticity in the American prose epic since 1960 / $c Rob Turner, University of Exeter. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a ix, 221 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; $v 182 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 500 $a Series numbering corrected to 181 per publisher. 505 00 $t Conclusion: "Every story has two tails". $t Marguerite Young's flood of consciousness -- $t William Gaddis and the "novel-writing-machine" of Andy Warhol -- $t "Paper reality": William S. Burroughs and the cut-up method -- $t "Bad history": Thomas Pynchon and the apocryphal epic -- $t "History shambles on": William T. Vollmann and the Seven dreams cycle -- $t Conclusion: "Every story has two tails". 650 0 $a Epic literature, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in American literature and culture; $v 181. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505015533.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=36141FBC5D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search