Description: Further DetailsTitle: Failure and Success in AmericaCondition: NewSubtitle: A Literary DebateISBN-10: 0691628033EAN: 9780691628035ISBN: 9780691628035Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/08/2015Description: Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of innumerable writers, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, Melville, Henry Adams, William and Henry James, Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and Norman Mailer. She draws on the work of philosophers, psychologists, and historians as well. Rather than discussing failure and success as merely economic or political statistics, Professor Banta explores them in terms of attitudes and concepts. She asks what it feels like for an American to succeed or fail in a country that is often defined in relation to its own success or failure as an idea and as an experience. While examining the thoughts, feelings, and language of Americans caught in the dialectic between winning and losing, the author reveals the strain Americans feel in fulfilling the overall scheme of their own lives as well as the life or destiny of their country. Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmItem Weight: 992gAuthor: Martha BantaGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Princeton Legacy LibraryRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Failure and Success in America
Title: Failure and Success in America
Subtitle: A Literary Debate
ISBN-10: 0691628033
EAN: 9780691628035
ISBN: 9780691628035
Release Date: 03/08/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 580 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Failure and Success in America : a Literary Debate
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 35 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Martha Banta
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 6.9 in
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Format: Trade Paperback
