University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Powerful Voices
The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Collegiate a cappella, part of a long tradition of unaccompanied singing, is known to date back on American college campuses to at least the colonial era. Considered in the context of college glee clubs, barbershop quartets, early-twentieth-century vocal pop groups, doo-wop groups, and contemporary...
Campaign Finance and Political Polarization
When Purists Prevail
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money into politics have unintentionally favored candidates with extreme ideological...
Embroidering the Scarlet A
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving...
New York-Paris
Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
As New York and Paris began to modernize, new modes of entertainment, such as panoramas, dioramas, and photography, seemed poised to take the place of the more complex forms of literary expression. Dioramas and photography were invented in Paris but soon spread to America, forming part of an increasingly...
The Critics and the Prioress
Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale’s antisemitism and its “Chaucerianism”—its...
by Joan Frank
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined.
Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until...
by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki’s long career and reflect themes that appear throughout...
The Gourmet Club
A Sextet
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan’s master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro¯ (1886–1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by the expertise of translators Anthony H. Chambers...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from...
by Paul Binnerts
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Acting in Real Time by renowned Dutch director and acting teacher Paul Binnerts describes his method for Real-Time Theater, which authorizes actors to actively determine how a story is told---they are no longer mere vehicles for delivering the playwright's message or the director's interpretations...
Revels in Madness
Insanity in Medicine and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
"Fascinating and important . . . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety and verve."
---Louis Sass, author of Madness and Modernism
"The scope of this book is daunting, ranging...
Acts of Gaiety
LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism by recovering earlier...
Acts of Conspicuous Compassion
Performance Culture and American Charity Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Charity has been a pervasive and influential concept in American culture, and has also served an important ideological purpose, helping people articulate their sense of individual and national identity. But what, exactly, compels our benevolence? In a social moment when countless worthy causes and...
Available Surfaces
Essays on Poesis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In Available Surfaces , T. R. Hummer explores the art of making both poetry and music, and of the concept of "making" itself. He draws on childhood experiences and experiences as an adult, as a poet, and as an explorer of unworldly spaces to examine that "something ineffable about the...