University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books

On the Waters of the Wissahickon

A History of Erdenheim Farm

by Eric Plaag
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015

In this comprehensive history of Erdenheim Farm, On the Waters of the Wissahickon separates the facts from the multitude of fictions, revealing the complex and intriguing history behind this important agricultural center along the Wissahickon Creek in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Featuring more...

Mount Fuji

Icon of Japan

by H. Byron Earhart
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive...

Sonic Liturgy

Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition

by Guy L. Beck, Frederick M. Denny
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012

Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck's earlier work, Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continues the discussion of sound into the realm of Hindu ritual and musical...

Sufi Aesthetics

Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn 'Arabi and 'Iraqi

by Cyrus Ali Zargar, Frederick M. Denny
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

Sufi Aesthetics argues that the interpretive keys to erotic Sufi poems and their medieval commentaries lie in understanding a unique perceptual experience. Using careful analysis of primary texts, Cyrus Ali Zargar explores the theoretical and poetic pronouncements of two major Muslim mystics, Muhyi...

Reason's Dark Champions

Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument

by Christopher W. Tindale, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists' reputation, revising the Platonic and Aristotelian "orthodoxies" that have dominated the tradition. Still lacking is a full appraisal of the Sophists' strategies of argumentation. Christopher W. Tindale corrects that omission...

Breast or Bottle?

Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice

by Amy Koerber, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical controversies and a critical examination of the ways in which medical beliefs are communicated to the public,...

Greek Revival

Cooking for Life

by Patricia Moore-Pastides
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

Take eighty-seven ambrosial recipes designed for the needs and appetites of everyday cooks, leaven with delectable anecdotes about the Greek lifestyle, then pepper with revealing scientific insight, and the result is Greek Revival: Cooking for Life—an appetizing introduction to wonderful flavors...

Dreamtime

A Happy Book

by Sam Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering—the inspiration for the main character in Dead Poets Society—guides us on a...

Charleston and the Great Depression

A Documentary History, 1929-1941

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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018

Charleston and the Great Depression tells many stories of the city during the 1930s—an era of tremendous want, hope, and change—through a collection of forty annotated primary documents. Included are letters, personal accounts, organizational reports, meeting minutes, speeches, photographs, oral...
by Geneva Cobb Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017

Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several...

Learning the Valley

Excursions into the Shenandoah Valley

by John Leland
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

In Learning the Valley, award-winning nature writer John Leland guides readers through the natural and human history of the Shenandoah Valley in twenty-five short essays on topics ranging from poison ivy and maple syrup to Stonewall Jackson and spelunking. Undergirding this dynamic narrative of place...

Vonnegut and Hemingway

Writers at War

by Lawrence R. Broer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012

In this original comparative study of Kurt Vonnegut and Ernest Hemingway, Lawrence R. Broer maps the striking intersections of biography and artistry in works by both writers, and he compares the ways in which they blend life and art. Broer views Hemingway as the "secret sharer" of Vonnegut's...

Towers of Myth And Stone

Yeats's Influence on Robinson Jeffers

by Deborah Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

In this critical study of the influence of W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) on the poetry and drama of Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), Deborah Fleming examines similarities in imagery, landscape, belief in eternal recurrence, use of myth, distrust of rationalism, and dedication to tradition. Although Yeats’s...

Textual Curation

Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and Chambers's Cyclopædia

by Krista Kennedy, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Wikipedia is arguably the most famous collaboratively written text of our time, but few know that nearly three hundred years ago Ephraim Chambers proposed an encyclopedia written by a wide range of contributors—from illiterate craftspeople to titled gentry. Chambers wrote that incorporating information...
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