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 Powerful Voices: The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella | Joshua S. Duchan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=911758 The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism | Tony Perucci http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3365636 Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era Architecture and Modern Literature | by David Spurr http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=4350173 Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures | by Karen Laura Thornber http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3867115 Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures A Poet's Craft A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry | by Annie Finch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=337222 A major new guide to writing and understanding poetry Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850 - 1970 | by Judith Hamera http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1070693 The first in-depth study of the history of the home aquarium Silent Hill: The Terror Engine | Bernard Perron http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3156987 The second entry in the Landmark Video Games series American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois | Mark W. Van Wienen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3834737 A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S. Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater | Jonathan Kalb http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2395380 Monumental plays and what they reveal about the enduring power of theater in an attention-challenged age Poker: The Parody of Capitalism | Ole Bjerg http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3700263 The cultural meanings of poker and how it mirrors fundamental aspects of capitalism Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories | Edited and with an Introduction by Bella Mirabella http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2056317 Original essays by leading scholars on the significance of accessories in the cultural, social, and political lives of men and women in the Renaissance James Baldwin: America and Beyond | by Edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1168369 An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest | by John Knott http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3678601 How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes Noise That Stays Noise: Essays | by Cole Swensen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1903627 Collected essays by a prominent contemporary poet The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose | by Lawrence Joseph http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3488377 Essays on poetry by the most important poet-lawyer of our era Bytes and Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age | by Steve Savage http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3432847 An examination of how musical activity has been transformed by contemporary production practices The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry | by Howard Rambsy II http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1798608 A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise Arthur Miller: 1962-2005 | by Christopher Bigsby http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=4558672 The second volume in the definitive biography of the acclaimed playwright American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop | by Tyler Hoffman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3091522 Performance poetry, identity, and nationality throughout American history The First Actresses: From Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons | by Gill Perry with Joseph Roach and Shearer West http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=4693833 Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century | by Laura Otis http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3160053 An interdisciplinary study that traces contemporary notions of "the web" to their origins long before the Internet came into being Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry | by John Marsh http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3158896 A new reading of 20th-century poets and their subject matter sheds new light on the development of American literary modernism Tomboys, Pretty Boys, and Outspoken Women: The Media Revolution of 1973 | by Edward D. Miller http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3021514 The origins of our culture's obessions with reality-based media Textual Conspiracies: Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory | by James R. Martel http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3124327 Engaging political and literary luminaries in an alternative narrative about power Digital Tools in Urban Schools: Mediating a Remix of Learning | by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1113625 An unsettling look at the history of right-wing political movements in Michigan Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia | by Jabari Mahiri http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1113625 Digital media in the classroom for both teachers and students The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice | by Judith Pascoe http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3119423 A remarkable journey to recover the voice of a legendary 18th-century actress Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s | by Theo Cateforis http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=152565 The definitive musical and cultural history of new wave music As If: An Autobiography | by Herbert Blau http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=100352 A legendary figure in American theater looks back Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual | by Herbert Blau http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3119291 A panoramic view of how we think about life and the imitation of life on stage Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni | by Mark J. P. Wolf http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3156836 The inaugural title in the Landmark Video Games series Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression | by Petra Dierkes-Thrun http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1979616 A study of Oscar Wilde's Salome in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction | by Melissa M. Littlefield http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3091709 A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction Diary of a Poem | by Andrew Hudgins http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1870399 A humorous and insightful collection of essays on poetry and its process The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture | by Tamara Ketabgian http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2526592 Expanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature | Edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Kenneth Kidd http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=363408 Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics | by Jennifer Gabrys http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=973473 Exploring the materiality of digital devices through electronic waste The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s | by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco, editors; Foreword by Linda Nochlin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=997198 An international picture of New Woman in film and photography The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels | by Suzanne Daly http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2199660 A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989 | by Nina Berman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2510033 An investigation of Germany and the Middle East through literary sources, in the context of social, economic, and political practices Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life | by Margaret Price, Foreword by Tobin Siebers http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1612837 Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education The Word on the Street: Linking the Academy and the Common Reader | by Harvey Teres http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1899620 Timely critical insights into today's growing initiative in publicly engaged scholarship Two Minds of a Western Poet | by Essays by David Mason http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2001318 Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet Home Truths?: Video Production and Domestic Life | by David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett, and Maria Pini http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=340136 An academic approach to the popular use of video production technology Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary | by Christian Moraru http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1594635 A study of the emerging cultural model of "cosmodernism" The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age | Edited by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=353224 Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship Thomas Mann's World: Empire, Race, and the Jewish Question | by Todd Kontje http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2456281 A comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature | by Cynthia Callahan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2516956 Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver Illuminating Childhood: Portraits in Fiction, Film, and Drama | by Ellen Handler Spitz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1205736 Experiencing the phases of childhood through art The Word on the Street: Linking the Academy and the Common Reader | by Harvey Teres http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1899620 Timely critical insights into today's growing initiative in publicly engaged scholarship Viral Mothers: Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS | by Bernice L. Hausman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=194329 Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises Artaud and His Doubles | by Kimberly Jannarone http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=345778 A radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use | by John Carey and Martin C. J. Elton http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=364002 An in-depth study of the fascinating relationship between new media and everyday life Unauthorized Voices: Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1987-2009 | by Marilyn Hacker http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1138981 Editor of the acclaimed Poets on Poetry series collects her own essays on the subject Selected Prose Works | by C. P. Cavafy, translated and annotated by Peter Jeffreys http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1204332 The first appearance in English of important prose works by poet C. P. Cavafy Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics | by Brent J. Steele http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=591457 How do nations create and maintain images of power? Michael Moore: Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon | by Matthew H. Bernstein, Editor http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192221 Indispensable perspectives on America's top documentary filmmaker and political commentator Building Romanticism: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain | by Nicole Reynolds http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1321927 A study of the importance of architecture in Romanticism Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance | by Diane Torr and Stephen Bottoms http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=236704 The gender-bending performances of Diane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops Orange Alert: essays on poetry, art, and the architecture of silence | by Kazim Ali http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1899447 An American poet takes on Eastern philosophy, Western culture, and his Muslim heritage The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature | edited by Rachel Ablow http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=364448 The first collection of criticism devoted to the problem of reading in Victorian literature The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive: Essays and Commentaries | by Martin Espada http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2657160 Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling, and Medical Power, New and expanded edition | by Joseph Turow http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=354930 A classic look at doctors in television, updated with two decades of new shows and research Is William Martinez Not Our Brother?: Twenty Years of the Prison Creative Arts Project | by Buzz Alexander http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2014615 A prison arts program attempts to reverse the trends of incarceration in America The Novel as Event | by Mario Ortiz Robles http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1825347 Exploring the importance of language in the Victorian novel Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age | by Kevin Stein http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1168034 Poetry lives on in the digital age Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution | by W. Russell Neuman, Editor http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=293114 Top media studies scholars discuss the evolution of media Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America | by Joseph Fichtelberg http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1459955 Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton | by William Davies King http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=373985 The long-neglected story of a literary marriage and the wife who helped America's first canonical playwright launch his career My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft | by Bonnie A. Nardi http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1597570 An anthropologist's analysis of the world's most popular online world game The Adventures of Philip: On His Way through the World Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him by | by William Makepeace Thackeray, Edited by Judith Law Fisher http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1083675 Thackeray's last completed novel, edited and with commentary by a leading textual scholar I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom | by Danielle Goldman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=287881 A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America Envisioning Asia: On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism | by Jeanette Roan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327161 Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games | by David Myers http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1611960 A new look at digital gaming and the aesthetics of play Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability | by Edward Wheatley http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=915892 Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability Still on Call | by Richard Stern http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1840239 A prolific, popular writer takes on everything from the 1940s to E. L. Doctorow to blogging. A Martian Muse: Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry | by Reginald Shepherd http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1432919 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist's posthumous volume of critical essays. Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea | by Suk-Young Kim http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=370207 A rare glimpse into North Korean propaganda---in parades, posters, murals, theater, and films. Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities | by David R. Castillo http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1125451 Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age. Disability Aesthetics | by Tobin Siebers http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1134097 Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments . First Loves and Other Adventures | by Grace Schulman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1268276 Award-winning poet explores the exhilaration of reading. Poetics of Dislocation | by Meena Alexander http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1139954 A prominent poet brings the experience of the world to her struggles to find her place in America, and explores what the many cultures in this country mean for poets practicing their craft. 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.