University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books

Listening to the Logos

Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece

by Christopher Lyle Johnstone, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012

In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings—from the mythopoetic tradition of Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle's treatises....
by William C. Boles, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013

David Henry Hwang is best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won a 1988 Tony Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and he has written the Obie Award-winners Golden Child and FOB, as well as Family Devotions, Sound and Beauty, Rich Relations, and a revised version of Flower Drum Song....

Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster

Traveling through Scotland with Boswell and Johnson

by William W. Starr
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottish journey of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, two of the most celebrated writers of their day. William W. Starr enlivens this crisply written travelogue...

Rhetorical Touch

Disability, Identification, Haptics

by Shannon Walters, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude. In resistance to a rhetorical tradition focused on shaping able bodies and neurotypical minds,...

"Mysticism" in Iran

The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept

by Ata Anzali, Frederick M. Denny
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

“Mysticism” in Iran is an in-depth analysis of significant transformations in the religious landscape of Safavid Iran that led to the marginalization of Sufism and the eventual emergence of ‘irfan as an alternative Shi‘i model of spirituality. Ata Anzali draws on a treasure-trove of manuscripts...

The Sheltering

A Novel

by Mark Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

“'You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner,’ Pamela had said, but that was wrong: you set yourself up as angel, and await the word of God.” Luther Redding lost his job, and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters Katie and Lucy, when the real estate bubble burst in Florida....
by Deno Trakas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Deno Trakas’s novel Messenger from Mystery features English graduate student Jason “Jay” Nichols, a third-generation Greek American who claims to be named after the heroic Argonaut leader despite an introspective and self-absorbed nature. On the cusp of his transition into adulthood and from...

From China to Peru

A Memoir of Travel

by Russell Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012

"I fly to faraway places in the hopes of finding the distinguishing thing. The frequent flier miles are a bonus." With a title borrowed from Samuel Johnson, insatiable globe-trotter Russell Fraser fondly recalls his travels in China, Peru, Italy, France, Russia, Scotland, the Persian Gulf,...
by Earl G. Ingersoll, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

Earl Ingersoll introduces the fiction of Steven Millhauser, whose distinguished career of more than four decades includes eight books of short fiction and four novels, the latest being the Pulitzer Prize–winning Martin Dressler (1996). In Understanding Steven Millhauser, Ingersoll explores Millhauser’s...
by William Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014

Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying...
by Gerald Alva Miller Jr., Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016

Gerald Alva Miller Jr.’s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. Gibson is the recipient of many notable awards for science fiction writing including the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards....
by Thomas Fahy, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014

Truman Capote—along with his most famous works In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s—continues to have a powerful hold over the American popular imagination. His glamorous lifestyle, which included hobnobbing with the rich and famous and frequenting the most elite nightclubs in Manhattan,...

Rethinking Islamic Studies

From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism

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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

Rethinking Islamic Studies upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist discourse within contemporary Islamic studies and carves fresh inroads toward a robust new understanding of the discipline, one that includes religious studies and other politically infused fields of inquiry. Editors Carl W....
by Matthew Luter, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

Understanding Jonathan Lethem is a study of the novels, short fiction, and nonfiction on a wide range of subjects in the arts by American novelist Jonathan Lethem, who is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Motherless Brooklyn, a MacArthur Foundation “genius”...
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