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Argues that contemporary culture - a landscape characterized by doubt, ambiguity, fragmentation, information overload, and mistrust - has fostered a radical scepticism so pervasive that the tendency to envision or construct conspiracies often provides the best explanation for the chaos that surrounds us.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Conspiracy of Postmodernism as Suspect and Sublime
  • 2. Conspiracy and Apocalypse in Popular Culture
  • 3. Conspiracy in Fiction: From Da Vinci to Damascus
  • 4. Joan Didion: The Fatal Glamour of Conspiracy
  • 5. Don DeLillo: Mystic Musings in a Paranoid’s Paradise
  • 6. Thomas Pynchon: The Functions of Conspiracy and the Performance of Paranoia
  • 7. Toni Morrison’s Trilogy of Obsession: “Something Rogue” and Conspiracy’s Comeuppance
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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        Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
        Publication Date: 5/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780817359508, 978-0817359508
        ISBN10: 0817359508
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Argues that contemporary culture - a landscape characterized by doubt, ambiguity, fragmentation, information overload, and mistrust - has fostered a radical scepticism so pervasive that the tendency to envision or construct conspiracies often provides the best explanation for the chaos that surrounds us.

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgments
        • 1. The Conspiracy of Postmodernism as Suspect and Sublime
        • 2. Conspiracy and Apocalypse in Popular Culture
        • 3. Conspiracy in Fiction: From Da Vinci to Damascus
        • 4. Joan Didion: The Fatal Glamour of Conspiracy
        • 5. Don DeLillo: Mystic Musings in a Paranoid’s Paradise
        • 6. Thomas Pynchon: The Functions of Conspiracy and the Performance of Paranoia
        • 7. Toni Morrison’s Trilogy of Obsession: “Something Rogue” and Conspiracy’s Comeuppance
        • Epilogue
        • Notes
        • Works Cited
        • Index

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