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

ISBN-13: 9780810131132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 248 str.

David M. Ball

Opis

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.