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Hardcover Counterfeit Culture: Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic Since 1960 Book
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ISBN: 1108428487

ISBN13: 9781108428484

Counterfeit Culture: Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic Since 1960

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

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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...

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