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200 14$aThe power of negative thinking $ecynicism and the history of modern American literature /$fBenjamin Schreier
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aCharlottesville $cUniversity of Virginia Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (257 p.)
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-8139-2812-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aAmerica and its discontents -- Cynicism and the criticism of competence -- Henry Adams and the failure of usefulness -- Willa Cather's illegible historicism -- The great Gatsby's betrayed Americanism -- Miss Lonelyhearts' insincere theodicy -- Afterword: Invisible literature.
330   $aSchreier's close reading and his vigorous theoretical examination of analytical first principles combine to make a book that is valuable not only to the study of methodology but to the scrutiny of the very assumptions the humanities bring to the exploration of the way we think.
606   $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aCynicism in literature
615  0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aCynicism in literature.
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