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Ashes taken for fire : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity / Kevin Bell.

Author/creator Bell, Kevin, 1966-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 252 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
American fiction--20th century --History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
English fiction--20th century --History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--England.
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.
LCCN 2006016780
ISBN0816649006 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0816649014 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780816649006
ISBN9780816649013

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