University Of South Carolina Press imprint: 384 books

The Ides of War

George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis

by Stephen Howard Browne, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

History tells us that on a day when the forces of civil government confront the forces of military might, no one knows what may follow. Americans believe that they have avoided this moment, that whatever other challengesthe country has faced, at least it never has had to deal with the prospects of...

Painting the Landscape with Fire

Longleaf Pines and Fire Ecology

by Den Latham
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

Fire can be a destructive, deadly element of nature, capable of obliterating forests, destroying homes, and taking lives. Den Latham’s Painting the Landscape with Fire describes this phenomenon but also tells a different story, one that reveals the role of fire ecology in healthy, dynamic forests....

Assembling Arguments

Multimodal Rhetoric and Scientific Discourse

by Jonathan Buehl, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016

Scientific arguments—and indeed arguments in most disciplines—depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources. In Assembling Arguments, Jonathan Buehl offers a concentrated study of scientific argumentation that...
by John Lang, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014

In this first book-length analysis of Ron Rash's fiction and poetry, John Lang covers all of Rash’s books published through 2013 and offers key insights about his aims, themes, literary techniques and allusions, and major literary influences. Understanding Ron Rash introduces readers to the major...
by Henry Veggian, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014

Henry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half- century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Don Delillo is the author of short stories, screenplays, and fifteen novels...
by Linda Wagner-Martin, Alex Engebretson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

Alex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson’s fiction and essays to date, providing an overview of the author’s life, themes, and literary and religious influences. Understanding Marilynne Robinson examines this author of three highly acclaimed novels and recipient...
by Frederic Svoboda, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018

The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932–2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and fall of midcentury American self-confidence and energy. A superb stylist with sixty books to his credit,...
by Derek C. Maus, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014

Although 2002 MacArthur Fellowship recipient Colson Whitehead ardently resists overarching categorizations of his work, Derek C. Maus argues in this volume that Whitehead’s first six books are linked by a careful balance between adherence to and violation of the wisdom of past generations. Whitehead...
by Kathleen Drowne, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014

Understanding Richard Russo explores the significant themes and patterns in this contemporary American author’s seven novels, a memoir, and two short story collections, including the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls. Known for assembling large casts of eccentric characters and sweeping...
by Marc Dudley, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019

The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems. What concerned him most—as a black man, as a gay man, as an American—were notions of isolation...
by Jennifer Ann Ho, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a “typical American” writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection of short stories, Who’s Irish?; and a collection of lectures, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and...

Extravagant Postcolonialism

Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958-1988

by Brian T. May
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014

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 healthy individuality. These “extravagant” postcolonial works focus less on collective social reality than...
by Allen Thiher, James Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

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 interpretation of Proust’s major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition...

Mosaic of Fire

The Work of Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle

by Caroline Maun
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013

Mosaic of Fire examines the personal and artistic interactions of four innovative American modernist women writers—Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle—all active in the Greenwich Village cultural milieu of the first half of the twentieth century. Caroline Maun traces the...
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