False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism /
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2014.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1987042 |
Sommario:
- 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.