The power of negative thinking : cynicism and the history of modern American literature / / Benjamin Schreier
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| Autore: |
Schreier Benjamin
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| Titolo: |
The power of negative thinking : cynicism and the history of modern American literature / / Benjamin Schreier
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Cynicism in literature | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | America 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Schreier'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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The power of negative thinking |
| ISBN: | 1-280-48988-X |
| 9786613585110 | |
| 0-8139-2820-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818498103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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