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Refreshing, inclusive approaches to the theory and practice of short fiction

The Art of Brevity gathers fresh ideas about the theory and writing of short fiction from around the globe t…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534526/Towers-of-Myth-and-Stone
In this critical study of the influence of W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) on the poetry and drama of Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), Deborah Fleming examines similarities in imagery, landscape, belief…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534491/Mamas-of-Dada
A study of the role women played in the rebellious Dada art movement in the early twentieth century

Mamas of Dada focuses on the lives and works of six representative female supporters…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534461/Extravagant-Postcolonialism
Brian T. May argues that, contrary to widely held assumptions of postcolonial literary criticism, a distinctive subset of postcolonial novels significantly values and scrupulously explores a h…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534451/Principle-and-Propensity
Reimagining the coming-of-age literary tradition in the U.S. and U.K. within dynamic theological contexts

Scholars have traditionally relied upon the assumption that the nineteenth-cent…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534388/Understanding-Marcel-Proust
Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interp…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534362/Understanding-Juan-Benet
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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534221/The-Passions-of-Modernism
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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534157/The-Robert-J-Wickenheiser-Collection-of-John-Milton-at-the-University-of-South-Carolina
A descriptive catalog of one of the world's largest collections of Milton and Miltoniana

Robert J. Wickenheiser started his Milton collection as a graduate student at the University of…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534201/Understanding-Robert-Musil
Deft analysis of the fiction, theater, and essays of the author of The Man without Qualities

In this critical introduction to the major works of Austrian modernist writer Robert Musil (…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700