Title False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism / David M. Ball

Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Modernism (Literature) -- United States Failure (Psychology) in literature. American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. American fiction Failure (Psychology) in literature Modernism (Literature) Languages & Literatures. American Literature. English. United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780810167858 0810167859

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