Ashes taken for fire

Bell, Kevin, 1966-

Ashes taken for fire aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity / [electronic resource] : Kevin Bell. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. - x, 252 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.

Holographic ensemble : the death of doubt itself in The nigger of the "Narcissus" -- Something savage, something pedantic : imaginary portraits of certitude in Jacob's room -- Maladjusted phantasms : the ontological question of blackness in Light in August -- The business of dreams : retailing presence in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Chaos and surface in Invisible man -- Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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GBA680297 bnb

Uk


American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--England.


Electronic books.

PS374.M535 / B45 2007eb

823/.9109112