Book contents
- Counterfeit Culture
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Counterfeit Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: America and the ‘Way to the Devil’
- Chapter 1 Marguerite Young’s Flood of Consciousness
- Chapter 2 William Gaddis and the ‘Novel-Writing-Machine’ of Andy Warhol
- Chapter 3 ‘Paper Reality’: William S. Burroughs and the Cut-Up Method
- Chapter 4 ‘Bad History’: Thomas Pynchon and the Apocryphal Epic
- Chapter 5 ‘History Shambles On’: William T. Vollmann and the Seven Dreams Cycle
- Conclusion: ‘Every Story Has Two Tails’
- Bibliography
- Index
- Recent books in this series (continued from page ii)
Chapter 1 - Marguerite Young’s Flood of Consciousness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2019
- Counterfeit Culture
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
- Counterfeit Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: America and the ‘Way to the Devil’
- Chapter 1 Marguerite Young’s Flood of Consciousness
- Chapter 2 William Gaddis and the ‘Novel-Writing-Machine’ of Andy Warhol
- Chapter 3 ‘Paper Reality’: William S. Burroughs and the Cut-Up Method
- Chapter 4 ‘Bad History’: Thomas Pynchon and the Apocryphal Epic
- Chapter 5 ‘History Shambles On’: William T. Vollmann and the Seven Dreams Cycle
- Conclusion: ‘Every Story Has Two Tails’
- Bibliography
- Index
- Recent books in this series (continued from page ii)
Summary
And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight. […] small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
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- Counterfeit CultureTruth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960, pp. 15 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019