University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Strange Cocktail
Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
For centuries, poets have turned to translation for creative inspiration. Through and in translation, poets have introduced new poetic styles, languages, and forms into their own writing, sometimes changing the course of literary history in the process. Strange Cocktail is the first comprehensive...
by Alessa Johns
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
*Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750–1837 *examines the processes of cultural transfer between Britain and Germany during the Personal Union, the period from 1714 to 1837 when the kings of England were simultaneously Electors of Hanover. While scholars have generally...
Dividing Lines
Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
One of the most extensive studies of class in nineteenth-century African American literature to date, Dividing Lines unveils how black fiction writers represented the uneasy relationship between class differences, racial solidarity, and the quest for civil rights in black communities. By portraying...
by Henry J. Bruton
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
This book takes on one of the great questions of the day: Why are some countries enormously rich and others so heartbreakingly poor?
Henry J. Bruton organizes the discussion around three basic ideas. The first is that well-being reflects not only the availability and distribution of goods and...
The Little Death of Self
Nine Essays toward Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
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.
The line between poetry (the delicate, surprising not-quite) and the essay (the...
Bytes and Backbeats
Repurposing Music in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
From Attali's "cold social silence" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music...
Persecution and Rescue
The Politics of the “Final Solution” in France, 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In 1942, two years after invading France, the Germans implemented their policy of exterminating the Jews. In contrast to Jews in many parts of German-occupied Europe, however, the majority of Jews in France survived, thanks to opposition to the Nazi extermination policy from Church dignitaries and...
by Christian Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany examines the relationship between the colonial and antisemitic movements of modern Germany from 1871 to 1918, examining the complicated ways in which German antisemitism and colonialism fed off of and into each other in the...
White Rebels in Black
German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time. Priscilla...
A Poetry Precise and Free
Selected Madrigals of Guarini
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
A Poetry Precise and Free collects 150 lyric poems by the Renaissance Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini in new translations, accompanied by the Italian originals and commentary that will enlighten and engage both scholars and general readers. Guarini’s madrigals provide insight into northern...
by Peter Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his military command. Although the order was quickly revoked by President Lincoln, it represented growing anti-Semitism in America. Convinced that assimilation was...
The Deregulatory Moment?
A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
For those who assume that increased regulation of political spending is inevitable in democratic nations, recent developments in U.S. campaign finance law appear puzzling. Is deregulation, exemplified by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, a harbinger of things to come elsewhere...
by Kathryn Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Political party leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives command greater loyalty than ever from fellow party members in roll call votes, campaign contributions, and partisan speeches. In return, leaders reward compliant members with opportunities to promote constituent interests and to advance...
Remaking the Democratic Party
Lyndon B. Johnson as a Native-Son Presidential Candidate
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A continuation of Hanes Walton Jr.’s work on Southern Democratic presidents, Remaking the Democratic Party analyzes the congressional and presidential elections of Lyndon Baines Johnson. This study builds upon the general theory of the native-son phenomenon to demonstrate that a Southern native-son...