University Of South Carolina Press: 384 books
Knowledge before Action
Islamic Learning and Sufi Practice in the Life of Sayyid Jalal al-din Bukhari Makhdum-I Jahaniyan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In Knowledge before Action, Amina M. Steinfels examines medieval Sufism and its place in Islamic society by telling the story of the life and career of Sayyid Jalal al-din Bukhari, a revered figure in Pakistan. Considered one of the most important Sufi masters of South Asia, Sayyid Jalal al-din Bukhari,...
Pirates and Devils
William Gilmore Simms's Unfinished Postbellum Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Pirates and Devils, edited by Nicholas G. Meriwether and David W. Newton, presents two of the most significant unfinished works by William Gilmore Simms, a prominent public intellectual of the antebellum South and one of the most prolific literary writers of the nineteenth century. These two incomplete...
The Hard to Catch Mercy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
From lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award–winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Revivals edition makes available once more a story that touches on the issues of religion, race, and coming-of-age...
by John Cusatis, Matthew J. Bruccoli
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Understanding Colum McCann chronicles the Irish-born writer's journey to literary celebrity from his days as a teenage sportswriter for the Irish Press in the 1970s, through the publication of his award-winning first story, "Tresses," in 1990, to his winning the 2009 National Book Award...
Southern Bound
A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers, and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers, and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than one hundred of the best pieces culled from Sledge’s total output of approximately seven...
by Paul Ruffin
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This fourth collection of essays by Paul Ruffin highlights his idiosyncratic wit and practiced storytelling skills in memorable autobiographic pieces ranging from the comic to the confessional. The first section, "Things Literary, More or Less," includes the title essay, in which Ruffin...
by Amanda M. Page, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In Understanding Chang-rae Lee, Amanda M. Page provides the first critical survey of the work of one of America’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists. Chang-rae Lee, the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English at Stanford University, has been the recipient of numerous awards including...
by William W. Demastes, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
John Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last sixty years, is best known for such works as House of Blue Leaves, winner of an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, and four Tony Awards, and Six Degrees of...
by Julia H. Lee, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Maxine Hong Kingston is known for using a distinctive blend of autobiography, fantasy, and folklore to explore the history, experience, and identity of Chinese Americans. This is exemplified in her first book, The Woman Warrior, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, a bestseller,...
Trained Capacities
John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey’s wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture’s fundamental conflicts between self and society,...
Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes
Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred...
Colonel Henry Theodore Titus
Antebellum Soldier of Fortune and Florida Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Henry Theodore Titus (1822–1881) was the quintessential adventurer, soldier of fortune, and small-time entrepreneur, a man for whom any frontier—geographical, cultural, social—was an opportunity for advancement. Although born in Trenton, New Jersey, and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, Titus...
Jesting in Earnest
Percival Everett and Menippean Satire
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of more than thirty books on a wide variety of subjects and genres. Among his many honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the Huston/Wright Legacy Award for...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discovery, Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890–1910 is a travelogue of captivating episodes in exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth...