University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Page to Stage
The Craft of Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
At last, for those who adapt literature into scripts, a how-to book that illuminates the process of creating a stageworthy play. Page to Stage describes the essential steps for constructing adaptations for any theatrical venue, from the college classroom to a professionally produced production. Acclaimed...
Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé
In and Out of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahulé has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For the first time, Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé: In and Out of Africa makes available to an Anglophone audience some of the...
by Cathy Gelbin, Sander Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political...
Dreams for Dead Bodies
Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline...
Ecstatic Émigré
An Ethics of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Most think of an émigré as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar. Mapping...
Coming After
Essays on Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Coming After gathers critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience.
Notley explores the work of second-generation New York School poets and their allies: Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Ron Padgett, Lorenzo Thomas, and others....
The Skin of Meaning
Collected Literary Essays and Talks
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
In The Skin of Meaning, Aaron Shurin has collected thirty years’ worth...
Curious Attractions
Essays on Fiction Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing is a book about what makes fiction work. In nine entertaining and instructive essays, novelist and master teacher Debra Spark pursues key questions that face both aspiring and accomplished writers, including: How does a writer find inspiration? What makes...
by David A Spurr
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Architecture and Modern Literatureexplores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical...
The Fanfiction Reader
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous heroic characters. The Fanfiction Reader showcases...
Speaking in Tongues
Languages at Play in the Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations. The use of multiple languages in the contemporary theatre is in part...
The Textuality of Soulwork
Jack Kerouac's Quest for Spontaneous Prose
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Tim Hunt’s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Spontaneous Proseexamines Kerouac’s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author’s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac’s development...
by Suzanne Gottschang
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
What happens to pregnant women when the largest country in the world implements a global health policy aimed at reorganizing hospitals and re- training health care workers to promote breastfeeding? Since 1992, the Chinese government has led the world in reorganizing more than 7,000 hospitals into...
Cultural Struggles
Performance, Ethnography, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The late Dwight Conquergood’s research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised. Conquergood’s research laid the groundwork for others to engage...