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False Starts The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism

Title
False Starts [electronic resource] : The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism / David M. Ball.
Author
Ball, David M., 1976-
Publication
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

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Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Uniform Title
  • False Starts (Online)
  • Book collections on Project MUSE.
Alternative Title
False Starts (Online)
Subject
  • Modernism (Literature) > United States
  • Failure (Psychology) in literature
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
Note
  • Originally the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
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.
OCLC
ssj0001409759
Author
Ball, David M., 1976-
Title
False Starts [electronic resource] : The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism / David M. Ball.
Imprint
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Project Muse.
LCCN
2014026771
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