False Starts: The Rhetoric Of Failure And The Making Of American Modernism,Used

False Starts: The Rhetoric Of Failure And The Making Of American Modernism,Used

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From Herman Melvilles claim that failure is the true test of greatness to Henry Adamss selfidentification with the mortifying failure in [his] long education and William Faulkners 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. David Balls magisterial study addresses the fundamental questions of language, meaning, and authority that run counter to wellrehearsed claims of American innocence and positivity, beginning with the American Renaissance and extending into modernist and contemporary literature. The rhetoric of failure was used at various times to engage artistic ambition, the arrival of advanced capitalism, and a rapidly changing culture, not to mention sheer exhaustion. False Starts locates a lively narrative running through American literature that consequently queries assumptions about the development of modernism in the United States.

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