University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
In Permanent Crisis
Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations: victims of human trafficking, suspects of terrorism, “bogus” asylum seekers. Through analysis of work by established filmmakers Michael Haneke, Fatih Akin, and Alfonso Cuarón, In...
China and the West
Music, Representation, and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese music absorbed its influence. As China and the West demonstrates, the emergence of “Westernized” music from China—concurrent with the technological...
The Tribe of Pyn
Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In The Tribe of Pyn, Cowart offers illuminating readings of several important novelists now at the height of their powers, whose work has received fairly limited scholarly attention thus far. Jonathan Franzen, Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, Gloria Naylor, Richard Powers, and a raft of others...
Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans
Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
While battling negative stereotypes, American Jews carved out new roles for themselves within the first theatrical entertainments in America. Jewish citizens were active as performers, playwrights, critics, managers, and theatrical shareholders, and often tied their involvement in these endeavors...
¡Muy Pop!
Conversations on Latino Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Although investigations of Hispanic popular culture were approached for decades as part of folklore studies, in recent years scholarly explorations—of lucha libre, telenovelas, comic strips, comedy, baseball, the novela rosa and the detective novel, sci-fi, even advertising—have multiplied. What...
The Beatles through a Glass Onion
Reconsidering the White Album
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself. The concept of the traditional, unified, reified, civilizing idea of culture has come under attack. The growth of...
The News from Poems
Essays on the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This “engaged” poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change, to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,...
Visualizing Secularism and Religion
Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Over the past two decades secular polities across the globe have witnessed an increasing turn to religion-based political movements, such as the rise of political Islam and Hindu nationalism, which have been fueling new and alternative notions of nationhood and national ideologies. The rise of such...
Robert Hayden
Essays on the Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden’s growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century’s most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed “Middle Passage” and “Frederick Douglass.” The essays illuminate the...
Imperial Fictions
German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Imperial Fictions explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles...
The Humblest Sparrow
The Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus. Often regarded as an important transitional figure, Fortunatus wrote poetry that is seen to bridge the late classical and earlier medieval periods. Written in Latin, his poems...
From Villain to Hero
Odysseus in Ancient Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Praise for Silvia Montiglio
"[A] brilliant and important book. . . . "
---Journal of Religion, on Silence in the Land of Logos
"[A]n invigorating reevaluation of both the ancient symbolic landscape and our preconceptions of it."
---American Journal of Philology, on...
Kinesis
The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Donald Lateiner, in his groundbreaking work The Sardonic Smile, presented the first thorough study of nonverbal behavior in Homeric epics, drawing a significant distinction between ancient and modern gesture and demonstrating the intrinsic relevance of this “silent language” to psychological,...