University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Jean Valentine
This-World Company
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Over the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of Valentine's...
The Sound of Listening
Poetry as Refuge and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Philip Metres stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can perform—from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to building a more just world, in communities of solitude and solidarity. Gathering a decade of his writing on poetry, he widens our sense of poetry...
by Kendall Stiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Do states trust each other? What are the political and ethical implications of trust? Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, Trust and Hedging in International Relations adds to the emerging literature on trust in international relations by offering a systematic measure of state-to-state trust....
Microdramas
Crucibles for Theater and Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle and a tool to investigate theater itself (August...
by James Igoe Walsh, Marcus Schulzke
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Combat drones are transforming attitudes about the use of military force. Military casualties and the costs of conflict sap public support for war and for political and military leaders. Combat drones offer an unprecedented ability to reduce these costs by increasing accuracy, reducing the risks to...
Anne Carson
Ecstatic Lyre
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Anne Carson’s works re-think genre in some of the most unusual and nuanced ways that few writers ever attempt, from her lyric essays, enigmatic poems, and novels in verse to further forays into video and comics and collaborative performance. Carson’s pathbreaking translations of Ancient Greek...
Gaming the Stage
Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters...
Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain
Reading, Ownership, Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of women’s reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive...
The Chief Concern of Medicine
The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Unlike any existing studies of the medical humanities, The Chief Concern of Medicinebrings to the examination of medical practices a thorough---and clearly articulated---exposition of the nature of narrative. The book builds on the work of linguistics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory...
Flourishing Thought
Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Challenging the posthumanist canon that celebrates the preeminence of matter, Ruth Miller, in Flourishing Thought contends that what nonhuman systems contribute to democracy is thought. Drawing on recent feminist theories of nonhuman life and politics, Miller shows that reproduction and flourishing...
by Eric Adler
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars, Eric Adler’s book examines popular polemics including those by Allan Bloom and Dinesh D’Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role of classical studies in these conflicts. In presenting a brief history of classics in American...
Affect, Animals, and Autists
Feeling Around the Edges of the Human in Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
When theater and related forms of live performance explore the borderlands labeled animal and autism, they both reflect and affect their audiences’ understanding of what it means to be human. Affect, Animals, and Autists maps connections across performances that question the borders of the human...
by Howard Rambsy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’s poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the...
Finding Italy
Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Finding Italy explores the journey of the Romans’ ancestor Aeneas and his fellow Trojans from their old home, Troy, to their new country, Italy, narrated in Vergil’s epic poem Aeneid. K. F. B. Fletcher argues that a main narrative theme is patriotism, specifically the problem of how one comes...