Rob Turner's "Counterfeit Culture" (2019)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.: Cambridge University Press (book, essays), 2019.
9.25" x 6.25" x 0.75", 223 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 978-1-108-42848-4.
Counterfeit Culture: Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960 by Rob Turner, as published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US) in 2019.
This includes an essay on Burroughs: "'Paper Reality': William S. Burroughs and the Cut-Up Method", pp. 78-109, chapter 3.
Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: American 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
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