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False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism
- Title
- False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism / David M. Ball.
- Author
- Ball, David M., 1976-
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-601 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Originally the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2007.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-601
- ISBN
- 9780810130005
- 0810130009
- 9780810131132
- 0810131137
- 9780810167858 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014026771
- OCLC
- 879583853
- Author
- Ball, David M., 1976- author.
- Title
- False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism / David M. Ball.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-601