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Author:

Ball, David M., 1976- author.

Title:

False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism / David M. Ball.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
American fiction.
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
1800 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Originally the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Afterword : the persistence of failure : Chris Ware's graphic narratives and the afterlife of modernism. 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.

ISBN:

0810131137
9780810131132
0810130009
9780810130005

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879583853

LCCN:

2014026771

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)