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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ISBN | 9780810131132 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres |
Jahr | 20141130 |
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