
False Starts
The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism
David M. Ball(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Published on 30. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-8101-3113-2 (ISBN)
Description
From Herman Melville's claim that "failure is the true test of greatness" to Henry Adams's self-identification with the "mortifying failure in [his] long education" and William Faulkner's eagerness to be judged by his "splendid failure to do the impossible," the rhetoric of failure has served as a master trope of modernist American literary expression.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
13 images
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-3113-2 (9780810131132)
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11/2014
1st Edition
Northwestern University Press
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Person
David M. Ball is a visiting associate professor of English at Princeton University and an associate professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.