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False Starts : The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism / David M. Ball.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, David M., 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Failure (Psychology) in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From Herman Melville's claim that "failure is the true test of greatness" to Henry Adams's self-identification with the "mortifying failure in [his] long education" and William Faulkner's eagerness to be judged by his "splendid failure to do the impossible," the rhetoric of failure has served as a master trope of modernist American literary.
- Contents:
- The rhetoric of failure and the case study of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The prestige of failure : modern sentiments in Susan Warner and Herman Melville
- The economies of failure : the culture of antisemitism in Henry Adams and Edith Wharton
- The inscription of failure : signifying documents in William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison
- Afterword : the persistence of failure : Chris Ware's graphic narratives and the afterlife of modernism.
- Notes:
- Originally the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6785-9
- OCLC:
- 899261613
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