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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, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017455/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017445/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017383/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Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interp…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017357/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017279/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017272/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017261/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017055/Narrating-Scotland
A reading of Stevenson as a historian at odds with tradition

Beloved for generations as one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most thrilling adventure novels, Kidnapped tells the story of Dav…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017079/The-Triumph-of-Imperfection
European Romanticism inverted and reassessed, with an eye to contemporary debates

In this sequel to his Harry Levin Prize-winning The Taming of Romanticism, Virgil Nemoianu expands his…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700