Ball, David M.

From Herman Melville’s claim that “failure is the true test of greatness” to Henry Adams’s self-identification with the “mortifying failure in [his] long education” and William Faulkner’s eagerness to be judged by his “splendid...

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Ball, David M.

Is there a demonstrable link between the literatures of the American Renaissance and the inception of literary modernism? Critical commonplaces describe the American scene as a theater of sweeping technological modernization...

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