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An alternative approach to modernism as confronting helplessness and passivity

Upending the traditional view of modernism as defined by skepticism and emotional detachment, Anthony Cuda…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060942/Reading-the-World
An investigation into the aesthetic and philosophical ends of McCarthy's southern novels

In Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061078/Understanding-Sam-Shepard
An ideal introduction into the complex and compelling dramas of the acclaimed playwright

Understanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060922/Understanding-Charles-Wright
A literary roadmap to navigating the "trilogy of trilogies" by one of America's most celebrated poets

Named the U.S. poet laureate in 2014, Charles Wright has received the PEN Translati…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061182/Mellichampe
The second of eight novels in the Revolutionary War series, William Gilmore Simms's revolutionary romance Mellichampe follows the fictional band of Francis Marion's partisans in the fall of 17…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061676/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…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3060872/The-Body-in-Flannery-OConnors-Fiction
A reading of physical obsession in O'Connor through linguistic and literary techniques

At the intersection of literary theory and linguistics, The Body in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction ex…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061051/Understanding-Etheridge-Knight
Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major—but understudied—American poet. Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, a…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061110/Castle-Dismal-Or-The-Bachelors-Christmas
A gothic tale of ghosts, infidelity, murder, and love, Castle Dismal follows the protagonist Ned Clifton, a "veteran bachelor" who fears the bonds of marriage, in his holiday visit to the home…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061152/Understanding-Steven-Millhauser
An exploration of the thematic interests and narrative strategies of a contemporary American master of fiction

Earl Ingersoll introduces the fiction of Steven Millhauser, whose distingu…]]> Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0800