University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Sails of the Herring Fleet
Essays on Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading interpreters of his work. In addition to...
Textual Conspiracies
Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
“This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style. It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be ‘swept off their feet’ by the core assertions of this author, and the devastatingly comprehensive way in which...
Africa's World Cup
Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Spacefocuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive...
Joyce/Foucault
Sexual Confessions
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Sheds new light on James Joyce's use of sexual motifs as cultural raw material for Ulysses and other works
Joyce/Foucault: Sexual Confessions examines instances of sexual confession in works of James Joyce, with a special emphasis on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Using...
Reality Principles
From the Absurd to the Virtual
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“Herbert Blau’s long sustained inquiry into theater’s most provocative questions—presence, liveness, and finitude—are, at their deepest level, queries into life. Reality Principles returns us to Blau’s inspiring provocations and extends them to new subjects—9/11 and Ground Zero, the...
James Baldwin
America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
"This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era. The title provides an excellent thematic focus. He understood both the necessity, and the impossibility,...
Set in Motion
Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Set in Motion collects for the first time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, one of our most important and enduring contemporary poets. Hailed as a major force in American poetry by such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has reflected upon the influences of luminaries...
Lessons from the Past
The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus...
Topographies of Class
Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations...
by Niran Abbas
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
"Provides an extremely valuable introduction to the work of Michel Serres for an English-speaking audience, as well as offering useful critical approaches for those already familiar with its outlines."
---Robert Harrison, Stanford University [blurb from review pending permission]
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Paul Wellstone
The Life of a Passionate Progressive
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
"Paul Wellstone, we miss you. Few politicians, especially these days, are as willing to stand up and speak the truth as Wellstone was. In this era of flaccid rhetoric and pre-approved sound bites, he had the rare ability to ignite a fire in his audiences. Bill Lofy's excellent biography rekindles...
Surrender
How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Michael Meeropol argues that the ballooning of the federal budget deficit was not a serious problem in the 1980s, nor were the successful recent efforts to get it under control the basis for the prosperous economy of the mid-1990s. In this controversial book, the author provides a close look at what...
Mr. Democrat
Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Mr. Democrat tells the story of Jim Farley, Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign manager. As party boss, Farley experienced unprecedented success in the New Deal years. And like his modern counterpart Karl Rove, Farley enjoyed unparalleled access and power. Unlike Rove, however, Farley was instrumental...
Breaking Ground
Pioneering Women Archaeologists
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"At the close of the Victorian era, two generations of intrepid women abandoned Grand Tour travel for the rigors of archaeological expeditions, shining the light of scientific exploration on Old World antiquity. Breaking Ground highlights the remarkable careers of twelve pioneers-a compelling...