False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism /

Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Ball, David M., 1976- (Auteur)
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Online toegang:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1987042
Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.