uscpress.com - World Literature https://uscpress.com/ The Art of Brevity https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611764/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…]]>
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Towers of Myth and Stone https://uscpress.com/book-post/4612000/Towers-of-Myth-and-Stone
A study of two men's shared vision of modernity and appreciation for tradition expressed through their poetry

In this critical study of the influence of W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) on the p…]]>
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Mamas of Dada https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611965/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…]]>
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Extravagant Postcolonialism https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611939/Extravagant-Postcolonialism
A reappreciation of the undertones of individualism refashioning modernism in select postcolonial works

Brian T. May argues that, contrary to widely held assumptions of postcolonial lit…]]>
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Principle and Propensity https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611929/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…]]>
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Understanding Marcel Proust https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611867/Understanding-Marcel-Proust
An overview of Proust's development as a writer and an in-depth study of his major novel, In Search of Lost Time

Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's deve…]]>
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Understanding Juan Benet https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611841/Understanding-Juan-Benet
An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Spanish writer's complete body of work

Benjamin Fraser offers an engaging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the literary ach…]]>
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The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611637/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…]]>
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Understanding Robert Musil https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611681/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 (…]]>
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The Passions of Modernism https://uscpress.com/book-post/4611701/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…]]>
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