University Of South Carolina Press: 384 books

Cover of Understanding Louise Erdrich
by Seema Kurup, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich’s oeuvre the...
Cover of Understanding Sharon Olds
by Russell Brickey, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

Understanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize–winning poet’s major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women. In this first book dedicated entirely to the poetry of Sharon Olds, Russell...
Cover of Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends
by Nancy Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's stories of the War Between the States and she trekked over many battle sites with him during...
Cover of Little Anodynes
by Jon Pineda
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015

The third collection by the prize-winning Asian American poet Jon Pineda, Little Anodynes is a sequence of lyrical, personal narratives that continue Pineda’s exploration of his biracial identity, the haunting loss of his sister, and the joys—and fears—of fatherhood. With its title inspired...
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Greek Revival from the Garden

Growing and Cooking for Life

by Patricia Moore-Pastides
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013

Patricia Moore-Pastides, author of Greek Revival: Cooking for Life, heads to the garden in this new cookbook that makes a do-it-yourself healthful lifestyle possible, offering guidance on how to pursue healthy eating, starting from the ground up. Moore-Pastides, an accomplished cook and public-health...
Cover of Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks
by Jennifer Larson, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks is a critical study of a playwright and screenwriter who was the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks is also the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, a Whiting Writers Award, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, two...
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Rhetorics and Technologies

New Directions in Writing and Communication

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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012

Recognizing an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen contributors to this volume illuminate the challenges and opportunities inherent in successfully navigating intersections between rhetoric and technology in existing and emergent literacy practices. Edited by Stuart...
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Viewing the Future in the Past

Historical Ecology Applications to Environmental Issues

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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Viewing the Future in the Past is a collection of essays that represents a wide range of authors, loci, and subjects that together demonstrate the value and necessity of looking at environmental problems as a long-term process that involves humans as a causal factor. Editors H. Thomas Foster, II,...
Cover of Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native societies,...
Cover of Understanding Norman Mailer
by Maggie McKinley, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

As a renowned novelist, journalist, biographer, playwright, speaker, aspiring politician, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Norman Mailer was one of the most prominent American literary and cultural figures of the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of his expansive sixty-year...
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The Public Work of Rhetoric

Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement

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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

The Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rhetorical techné as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement and social change, which is necessarily inclusive of people inside and outside the academy. In this provocative call to action, editors John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan, along with...
Cover of Theater Careers

Theater Careers

A Realistic Guide

by Tim Donahue, Jim Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013

Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business. Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson offer well-researched information on various professions, salary ranges, educational...
Cover of V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer
by Gillian Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

A survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature, V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer introduces readers to the writer widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist who finds special satisfaction in overturning the vogue presuppositions of his peers. Gillian Dooley takes an expansive look...
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Focus on Playwrights

Portraits and Interviews

by Susan Johann
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

In 1989 Susan Johann was hired to photograph Christopher Durang for a magazine article about his play Naomi in Her Living Room. The playwright was known for his outrageous comedy, so Johann anticipated a session with a rather wild, young eccentric. To her surprise, the man who came to her studio was...
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