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Failure and Success in America - A Literary Debate (Hardcover)
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Failure and Success in America - A Literary Debate (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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.
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