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

Opis bibliograficzny
1. autor: Ball, David M., 1976- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Język:angielski
Wydane: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Dostęp online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv43vtph
Spis treści:
  • 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.