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The rhetoric of failure has served as a master trope of modernist American literary expression. David Ball's magisterial study addresses the fundamental questions of language, meaning, and authority that run counter to well-rehearsed claims of American innocence and positivity, beginning with the American Renaissance and extending into modernist and contemporary literature.

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 12/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810130005, 978-0810130005
      ISBN10: 0810130009

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      Book Synopsis
      The rhetoric of failure has served as a master trope of modernist American literary expression. David Ball's magisterial study addresses the fundamental questions of language, meaning, and authority that run counter to well-rehearsed claims of American innocence and positivity, beginning with the American Renaissance and extending into modernist and contemporary literature.

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