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Benjamin Fraser offers an engaging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the literary achievements of Spanish writer Juan Benet (1927-1993) that explores how Benet's intertwined perspect…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409284/The-Way-We-Read-James-Dickey
Original inroads to understanding the life and works of the celebrated novelist and poet

In The Way We Read James Dickey editors William B. Thesing and Theda Wrede have assembled an out…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409407/Joseph-Conrad-and-the-Anxiety-of-Knowledge
An alternate view of the perplexing and often contradictory fiction of an elusive author

Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409255/Vasconselos
Vasconselos is a Colonial Romance, and focuses on the Spanish effort to colonize the New World. Within this exploration, Simms discusses the adjustment of Spanish culture from Medieval to Earl…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409499/The-Scout
William Gilmore Simms's third novel of the Revolutionary War (fifth in order of plot chronology) tells the story of familial conflict in the context of war and a broad-minded exploration of pa…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410629/Hemingways-Brain-updated-edition
A forensic psychiatrist's corrective and innovative diagnosis of the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway's suicide

Hemingway's Brain is the first forensic psychiatric examination of…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409202/New-Paths-to-Raymond-Carver
A balanced assessment of the acclaimed writer's poetry and fiction

Brevity and intensity characterized the life and literary creations of Raymond Carver, but too often his prose and poe…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409376/The-Life-of-the-Chevalier-Bayard
Simms wrote The Life of Chevalier Bayard, a biography of the late-medieval French knight, to serve as an archetype of virtue for Americans. Early reviews of Bayard were largely positive, comme…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409450/Eudora-Welty
A celebration of the legacy of the "first lady of American letters" from an impressive cast of writers, scholars, and friends of the author

On the occasion of Eudora Welty's ninetieth b…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409468/Modernist-Humanism-and-the-Men-of-1914
An original approach to modernism in which skepticism and pessimism are usurped by humanist values and virtues.

Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914 is a defense of literary modernism…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800