False Starts: The Rhetoric of Failure and the Making of American Modernism by David M. Ball

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

David M. Ball

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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 i...

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