Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newLitcrit.xml New Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu A Critic's Journey | by Ilan Stavans http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1142275 One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work. Extreme Pursuits: Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization | by Graham Huggan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=355716 A provocative look at travel—both voluntary and otherwise---in an uncertain world. Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing | by G. Thomas Couser http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=915367 Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability? An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots | Edited by Lorraine M. Lopez http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=329628 Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music | by Pamela Fox http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=277898 Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country? Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies 1959-2009 | Edited and with an Introduction by Joseph Roach http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=364059 Leading theater scholars on the major developments in their field over the past 50 years. Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience | by Ruth Scodel http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17078 NEW IN PAPER! A discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds. Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France | by Lewis C. Seifert http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=354488 The first book-length study of writing, men, and masculinity in seventeenth-century France. Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law | by Richard L. Schur http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=822512 An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics. No Boundaries: Transnational Latino Gangs and American Law Enforcement | by Tom Diaz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=287594 An alarming report on Latino crime gangs and the efforts of U.S. law enforcement to contain them. The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America | by Susan B. A. Somers-Willett http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322627 How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference? The Humblest Sparrow: The Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus | by Michael Roberts http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=353844 A long-awaited study of the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus. Reflections on Beckett: A Centenary Celebration | Anna McMullan and S. E. Wilmer, Editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=304324 Renowned international scholars offer perspectives on one of the world's most challenging playwrights. The Hopwood Lectures: Sixth Series | Edited and with an introduction by Nicholas Delbanco http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=354411 A selection of Hopwood lectures delivered during ten annual awards ceremony, including work by Charles Baxter, Mary Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan, Susan Stamberg, and others. Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture | by Martha Stoddard Holmes http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=11877 Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain. Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany | by Katrin Sieg http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17012 An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust. What Do Gay Men Want?: An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity | by David M. Halperin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=296688 A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts. On Burning Ground: Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry | by Sandra M. Gilbert http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=345683 The essays assembled display Gilbert's astonishing range and explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature. Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification | by Marcial Gonzalez http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=301088 Explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the last hundred years. Midnight's Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie | edited by Daniel Herwitz and Ashutosh Varshney http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=340138 A distinguished collection of interdisciplinary thinkers provide fresh insights into the complex political and cultural meanings of Salman Rushdie's writing. Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic | by Yoav Rinon http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=337002 A probing and much needed examination of "the tragic" as a concept distinct from tragedy as a genre. Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle | by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322377 By introducing us to the New Woman Criminal, Framed offers a profoundly different view of the fin de siecle British crime narrative. Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics | by Larry J. Reynolds http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=163182 Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author. Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007 | by Alfred Corn http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=344409 A collection of essays from one of the most accomplished poets of his generation on a wide variety of subjects, from Elizabeth Bishop to Virginia Woolf and Wordsworth. Stone Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller | by Jeffrey D. Mason http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=309730 A revealing look at Arthur Miller's political sensibilities as evidenced in his dramatic works and other writings. American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South | by Christopher Benfey http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=305181 From one of America's preeminent critics and essayists, a new book in the series Writers on Writing casts new light on some of America's literary masters. Suzan-Lori Parks | by Deborah R. Geis http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=187338 An accessible guide to the inventive language and experimental stagings of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks . Disability Theory | by Tobin Siebers http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=309723 Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies. Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement | by Mike Sell http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=337666 Explores the dynamic interactions of performance, politics, and literary criticism in three U.S countercultures in the 1950s and 60s. Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory | by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=170676 A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure. Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee | by John Bryant http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=183647 Sheds new light on Melville's classic novel Typee through a close and revealing look at his revision process. Edward Albee | edited by Toby Zinman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=142871 A theater-lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most important living playwrights. Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry | edited by Bruce Weigl http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=15385 New perspectives on the work of this original and hard-to-categorize American poet, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States. Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age | edited by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=287891 This collection is a timely intervention in national debates about what constitutes original or plagiarized writing in the digital age. Poet's Work, Poet's Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art | edited by Daniel Tobin and Pimone Triplett http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=263506 An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry.