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 3 - ‘Paper Reality’: William S. Burroughs and the Cut-Up Method
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
What you call ‘reality’ is a complex network of necessity formulae.. association lines of word and image presenting a prerecorded word and image track. How do you know ‘real’ events are taking place right where you are sitting now? You will read it tomorrow in the windy morning ‘NEWS’ …
Twister in:
Primrose, Nebraska … Tornado dead 223 … Street crowds in Baghdad rising from the typewriter … Mr Martin smiles … The Morning Maya … paper reality … photo bodies … William S. Burroughs, ‘Introductions’ (1979)
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- Counterfeit CultureTruth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960, pp. 78 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019