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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, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494671/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, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494609/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Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interp…]]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, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494583/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, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494506/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…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494499/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…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494488/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…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494443/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, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494276/Understanding-Penelope-Fitzgerald
A detailed overview of one of England's great fiction writers during the last century

Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald's canon illuminates writings he characterizes as possess…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4494282/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…]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:18:14 -0800