Author: Helen Gilbert
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: theater, theory, text, performance, theatre, australian, race, gender, nation, contemporary, sightlines
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-08-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0472066773
ISBN-13: 9780472066773

Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre asserts the centrality of theater to the ongoing negotiations of the Australian context. By exploring ways in which ideas about race, gender, and nation are expressed in concrete theatrical contexts, the performative qualities of theatrical representation are revealed as compelling, important sites of critique.Helen Gilbert discusses an exciting variety of plays, drawing examples from marginalized groups as well as from the theatrical mainstream. While fully engaged with the discourses of contemporary critical thought, Sig

Authors:James M. Buchanan, Gordon Tullock,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: ann, arbor, paperbacks, democracy, constitutional, consent, logical, foundations, calculus
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1962-03-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0472061003
ISBN-13: 9780472061006

A scientific study of the political and economic factors influencing democratic decision making

Author: Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: arbor, paperbacks, ann, society, knowledge, life, image
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1956-11-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0472060473
ISBN-13: 9780472060474

Boulding discusses the image as the key to understanding society and human behavior

Author: Lois Oppenheim
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: text, performance, theory, theater, beckett, directing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1997-08-15
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0472084364
ISBN-13: 9780472084364

In Directing Beckett, Lois Oppenheim presents interviews and essays with twenty-two prominent international directors of Samuel Beckett’s work, many of whom worked closely with Beckett, assisting him with his productions or acting under his direction before directing his work themselves. Here they speak openly of their experiences of working with him, and comment on various productions that, in taking great liberties with his work, have raised a number of fascinating legal and aesthetic questions. In exploring this key figure in the history of theater, Oppenheim’s interviews--with

Author: Dennis Coffey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: superstars, motown, bars, guitars
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472113992
ISBN-13: 9780472113996

Unlike the solo stars whose names appeared on the albums, Motown studio musicians usually stood in the shadows. Berry Gordy held a tight rein on his musicians, forbidding them from playing for other record companies, and leaving their names off the credits.In Guitars, Bars, and Motown Superstars, author and guitarist Dennis Coffey tells how he slipped Gordy’s draconian rules, going on to success as both a Motown musician and a million-selling solo artist. He offers a fascinating backstage look at the Detroit, L.A., and New York music scenes in the ’60s and ’70s, with side tri

Author: Christopher Benfey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: south, writers, writing, north, essays, audacity, literary, american
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-10-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0472116266
ISBN-13: 9780472116263

One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement, Benfey’s writings have helped us reimagine the American literary canon. In American Audacity, Benfey gathers his finest writings on eminent American authors (including Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Millay, Faulkner, Frost, and Welty), bringing to his subjects---as the New York Times Book Review has said of his earlier work---"a scholar&

Author: Ann E. Moyer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: medieval, noble, fulke, auncient, william, modern, civilization, ralph, rithmomachia, game, renaissance, europe, philosophers, lever
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0472112287
ISBN-13: 9780472112289

In The Philosophers’ Game, Ann E. Moyer invites us to engage with the forgotten chess-like game Rithmomachia ("The Battle of Numbers"), which combined the pleasures of gaming with mathematical study and moral education. Intellectuals of the medieval and Renaissance periods who played this game were not only seeking to master the principles of Boethian mathematics but were striving to improve their own understanding of the secrets of the cosmos. The Philosophers’ Game, which includes a complete, illustrated Elizabethan rulebook, examines the nature and importance of the game’s