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Failure and the American Writer
- A Literary History
Engelsk
Bogcover for Failure and the American Writer af Gavin Jones, 9781107662179
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
211
ISBN-13:
9781107662179
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1107662176
Udg. Dato:
20 jan 2014
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,6 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
20 jan 2014
Forfatter(e):

Failure and the American Writer

- A Literary History
Engelsk
Paperback 2014
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If America worships success, then why has the nation''s literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Reading textual inconsistency against the backdrop of a turbulent nineteenth century, Gavin Jones describes how the difficulties these writers faced in their faltering search for new styles, coherent characters and satisfactory endings uncovered experiences of blunder and inadequacy hidden in the culture at large. Through Jones''s treatment, these American writers emerge as the great theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self, founded in moral fallibility, precarious knowledge and negative feelings.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
211
ISBN-13:
9781107662179
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1107662176
Udg. Dato:
20 jan 2014
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,6 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
20 jan 2014
Forfatter(e):
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