University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Acts
Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting, Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Selfsheds light on some of the more evasive aspects of the acting...
Beyond the Bauhaus
Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Although the Breslau arts scene was one of the most vibrant in all of Weimar-era Germany, it has largely disappeared from memory. Studies of the influence of Weimar culture on modernism have focused almost exclusively on Berlin and the Dessau Bauhaus, yet the advances that occurred in Breslau affected...
Bodies of Modernism
Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bodies of Modernism brings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic including Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth...
Playing God
The Bible on the Broadway Stage
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Whether we regard it as the collected inscriptions of an earlier oral tradition or as the divinely authored source text of liturgical ritual, the Bible can be understood as a sacred performance text, a framework for an instructional theater that performs the shared moral and ethical values of a community....
The Chatter of the Visible
Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
The Chatter of the Visible examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photomontage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the purposeful interruption of and challenge to narrative consistency...
Performing Unification
History and Nation in German Theater after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while others opposed the very act of storytelling. Performing Unification examines how directors, playwrights,...
An Emotional State
The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an “inability to mourn,” arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested or addressed...
Animal Acts
Performing Species Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
We all have an animal story—the pet we loved, the wild animal that captured our childhood imagination, the deer the neighbor hit while driving. While scientific breakthroughs in animal cognition, the effects of global climate change and dwindling animal habitats, and the exploding interdisciplinary...
Performance and Media
Taxonomies for a Changing Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This timely collaboration by three prominent scholars of media-based performance presents a new model for understanding and analyzing theater and performance created and experienced where time-based, live events, and mediated technologies converge–particularly those works conceived and performed...
The Merchant of Prato's Wife
Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita’s correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, including hundreds...
by Ryan McConnell
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Papyrologists and historians have taken a lively interest in the Apion family (fifth through seventh centuries), who rose from local prominence in rural Middle Egypt to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the Eastern Roman Empire. The focus of most scholarly debate has been...
Ushering in a New Republic
Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The ancient Romans are well known for their love of the pageantry of power. No single ceremony better attests to this characteristic than the triumph, which celebrated the victory of a Roman commander through a grand ceremonial entrance into the city that ended in rites performed to Rome’s chief...
Continuing Cooperative Development
A Discourse Framework for Individuals as Colleagues
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In Continuing Cooperative Development, a series of guided tasks helps the reader acquire specific skills of listening and responding that, in turn, help a speaker to express and articulate thoughts and plans that lie just beyond what they knew that they knew.
By adopting a certain style of...
by Shelley Lynn Tremain
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field of philosophy. By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical...