Counterfeit Culture

Rob Turner

earliest edition we have, 2019 Cambridge University Press, 2019

"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 establis...

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Counterfeit Culture edition · 2025 · Cambridge University Press · 233 pages · 9781108449731
Counterfeit Culture edition · 2019 · Cambridge University Press · 232 pages · 9781108428484
Counterfeit Culture edition · 2019 · Cambridge University Press · 9781108625418
Counterfeit Culture edition · 2019 · Cambridge University Press · 9781108577540

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