University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
History after Liberty
Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first century CE Roman empire. The emperors in Tacitus’ works are almost universally tyrants surrounded by flatterers and informants, and the image Tacitus creates is of a society that has lost the liberty enjoyed under the Roman Republic....
by Julie Carr
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Julie Carr asks vital ethical questions about the role of poetry—and of art in general—in a violent culture. She addresses issues such as the art of listening, the body and the avant-garde, gun violence, police brutality,...
Fables of Representation
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
From the acclaimed author of Winter (Mirror) and Rehearsal in Black, Fables of Representation is a powerful collection of essays on the state of contemporary poetry, free from the stultifying theoretical jargon of recent literary history.
With its title essay, "Fables of Representation,"...
Performing Queer Latinidad
Dance, Sexuality, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when the size and influence of the Latina/o population was increasing alongside a growing scrutiny of...
Living in the Future
Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales create a false sense of England’s historical continuity that in turn...
After Live
Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In the dark of the blackout before the curtain rises, the theater holds its many worlds suspended on the verge of appearance. How can a performance sustain this sense of potentiality that grounds all live production? Or if a stage-world does begin, what kinds of future might appear within its frame?...
by Yaron Shemer
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
In Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel , Yaron Shemer presents the most comprehensive and systematic study to date of Mizrahi (Oriental-Jewish or Arab-Jewish) films produced in Israel in the last several decades. Through an analysis of dozens of films the book...
by Andrew Sofer
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
In The Stage Life of Props, Andrew Sofer aims to restore to certain props the performance dimensions that literary critics are trained not to see, then to show that these props are not just accessories, but time machines of the theater.
Using case studies that explore the Eucharistic wafer on the...
Industry and the Creative Mind
The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord Byron and brought to life...
Orpheus in the Bronx
Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings."
---James Longenbach
A...
Shipwrecked
Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe....
The Magellan Fallacy
Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Winner of the 2015 A-Asia/ICAS Africa-Asia Book Prize, a global competition, for the best book in English, French, or Portuguese on any topic linking Asia and Africa.
The Magellan Fallacy argues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though virtually unknown, reimagines the supposed...
by F. H. Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
“Bravo! I’ll say nothing funny about it, for it is a
superior piece of work.”
—P. J. O’Rourke
“F. H. Buckley’s The Morality of Laughter is at once
a humorous look at serious matters and a serious
book about humor.”
—Crisis Magazine
“Buckley has written a . ne and...
Condition Red
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Condition Red collects writing by one of America’s most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition...