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

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Tác giả chính: Ball, David M., 1976- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
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Mục lục:
  • 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.