Rob Turner

Counterfeit Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428484
• ISBN-10: 1108428487
• Artikelnr.: 54150601

Autorenporträt

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.