University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books
Denise Levertov in Company
Essays by Her Students, Colleagues, and Fellow Writers
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) was an award-winning author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose featuring the subjects of politics and war and, in later years, religion. Born and raised in England amid political unrest and war, Levertov moved to the United States after World War II and settled...
When Nighttime Shadows Fall
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In the early 1970s, Laura Bauer decides to leave college and head fifty miles north of her comfortable Atlanta home to manage a federally funded project aiding pregnant teenagers from the back roads of Appalachia. Almost as young as her clients, Laura is immediately confronted with—and almost overwhelmed...
by James W. Ely Jr., Herbert A. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In the first book in a generation to offer a fresh interpretation of the Supreme Court during the pivotal tenure of Melville W. Fuller, James Ely provides a judicial biography of the man who led the court from 1888 until 1910 as well as a comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of the jurisprudence...
The Supreme Court in the Early Republic
The Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
William R. Casto sheds a new light on America’s federal judiciary and the changing legal landscape with his detailed examination of the Supreme Court’s formative years. In a study that spans the period from the Court’s tentative beginnings through the appointment of its third chief justice,...
Battle Exhortation
The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle...
The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China
A Rhetorical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it is a dissident religious cult threatening political orthodoxy and national stability. The author, a...
Logos without Rhetoric
The Arts of Language before Plato
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called “rhetoric”? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized—or perhaps invented—their...
The Ex-suicide
A Mountain Brook Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The Ex-Suicide, Katherine Clark’s fourth Mountain Brook novel, is a satirical comedy of manners about a prominent Alabama family living across the street from the Birmingham Country Club. The house happens to be where the writer Walker Percy lived as a child with his family until his father committed...
by Margaret Hallissy, James Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama, Margaret Hallissy examines the work of a cross-section of important Irish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who are representative of essential issues and themes in the canon of contemporary Irish literature. Included...
Vonnegut in Fact
The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Vonnegut in Fact offers a thorough assessment of the artistry of Kurt Vonnegut, known not only as the best-selling author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Timequake, and a dozen other novels, but also as the most widely recognized public spokesperson among writers since Mark Twain. Jerome Klinkowitz traces...
Qoheleth
The Ironic Wink
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Rarely does a biblical book evoke admiration from a Nobel laureate in literature, a newspaper columnist, a prize-winning poet, and a popular songwriter. Ecclesiastes has done that, and for good reason. Its author, who called himself Qoheleth, stared death in the face and judged all human endeavors...
Copts in Context
Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Though the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt is among the oldest Christian communities in the world, it remained relatively unknown outside of Egypt for most of its existence. In the wake of the Arab Spring, however, this community was caught up in regional violence, and its predicament became a cause...
Introducing Science through Images
Cases of Visual Popularization
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support becomes essential. Because of its promise for captivating nonexpert publics, the practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While images have...
Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Since its publication in 1935, Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change, a text that can serve as an introduction to all his theories, has become a landmark of rhetorical theory. Using new archival sources and contextualizing Burke in the past and present, Ann George offers the first sustained exploration...