False Starts : The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, David M., 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
English.
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Modernism (Literature)
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Échec dans la litterature.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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