Failure and Success in America : : A Literary Debate / / Martha Banta.
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...
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Banta, Martha, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Failure and Success in America : A Literary Debate / Martha Banta. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©1979 1 online resource (580 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 1803 Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PART I. The More or Less of Success -- PART II. Ideas of the Land -- PART III. Winning and Losing -- PART IV. Renewal or Revenge -- PART V. The Drive Toward Conclusions -- PART VI. The Economics of Going On -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) American literature History and criticism. Failure (Psychology) in literature. Literature Psychology. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 9783110426847 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature 9783110413533 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691628035 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400867165 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400867165 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400867165.jpg |
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