University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Uncle Tom's Cabins
The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of...
Religion and Spanish Film
Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Treatments of religion found in Spanish cinema range from the pious to the anticlerical and atheistic, and every position in between. In a nation with a strong Catholic tradition, resistance to and rebellion against religious norms go back almost as far as the notion of “Sacred Spain.” Religion...
Reactivations
Essays on Performance and Its Documentation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on the relationship between the original...
Alienation Effects
Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and industrial...
Heroic Offerings
The Terracotta Plaques from the Spartan Sanctuary of Agamemnon and Kassandra
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece’s most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta’s history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class...
Anti-Imperialist Modernism
Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Anti-Imperialist Modernism excavates how U.S. cross-border, multi-ethnic anti-imperialist movements at mid-century shaped what we understand as cultural modernism and the historical period of the Great Depression. The book demonstrates how U.S. multiethnic cultural movements, located in political...
Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel
Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Eberhard Happel, German Baroque author of an extensive body of work of fiction and nonfiction, has for many years been categorized as a “courtly-gallant” novelist. In Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel, author Gerhild Scholz Williams argues that categorizing him thus is...
by J. Christopher Warner
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton rewrites the history of the Renaissance Vergilian epic by incorporating the neo-Latin side of the story alongside the vernacular one, revealing how epics spoke to each other "across the language gap" and together comprised a single, "Augustinian...
Jane Cooper
A Radiance of Attention
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
For her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924–2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for nearly forty years, she served as a mentor to many aspiring poets. Her elegant, honest, and emotionally and formally precise...
Noise That Stays Noise
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Praise for Cole Swensen:
"One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry."
---Library Journal
"Engaging and delightful."
---Publishers Weekly
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together...
Immanent Distance
Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In these essays, Bruce Bond interrogates the commonly accepted notion that all poetry since modernism tends toward one of two traditions: that of a more architectural sensibility with its resistance to metaphysics, and that of a latter-day Romantic sensibility, which finds its authority in a metaphysics...
by Alan Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
A new collection of essays from one of the most courageous and honest thinkers writing today
"The question of the public intellectual is very much in the air again," writes Alan Wolfe. As one of our eminent social commentators, Wolfe should know; he's been writing, with fierce intellectual...
The Imprint of Another Life
Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibilityaddresses a series of questions about common beliefs about adoption. Underlying these beliefs is the assumption that human qualities are innate and intrinsic, an assumption often held by adoptees and their families, sometimes at...
by Nancy Bradbury, Jennifer Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The essays gathered in this volume present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiation and resistance...