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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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409465/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…]]> 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 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409484/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409492/Unvarnishing-Reality
Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fictio…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409509/The-Art-of-Brevity
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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409533/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…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409762/Understanding-Roberto-Bolano
An examination of the novels, short story collections, and poetry of the Latin American author

In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis o…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409745/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Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interp…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/3409725/Understanding-Jonathan-Coe
An examination of the life, career, and oeuvre of the British novelist and biographer

In Understanding Jonathan Coe, the first full-length study of the British novelist, Merritt Moseley…]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:54:27 -0800