Rediscoveries

Rediscoveries

Rediscoveries presents books of continuing scholarly importance, originally published by Minnesota over the past two decades, in new open-access editions.
Warmly lit room show two upholstered accent chairs in front of a large library of well-used books.

16 projects. Showing results 1 through 16.

Sepia toned image showing a cobblestone street populated by pedestrians in nineteenth-century garb. An ornate, domed building presides in the background before other similar structures.

Creole Medievalism

Colonial France and Joseph Bédier’s Middle Ages

Michelle R. Warren
A collage with a man standing on a bench holding a measuring stick with a compass illustrating his field of vision. Sketches and mathematical equations appear before him.

Architecture of Life

Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences

Alla Vronskaya
Large overlapping quotation marks in green and blue with silhouettes of faces hidden within; title above against white background.

Philosophy after Friendship

Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae

Gregg Lambert
Title over Lorna Simpson’s “Head on Ice #5,” where a newsprint image of a black woman’s face is obscured by white ink and melting down around her.

Black Bourgeois

Class and Sex in the Flesh

Candice M. Jenkins
Three stacked display monitors with the title vertically oriented in transparent type printed over them.

Screens

Viewing Media Installation Art

Kate Mondloch
Three women in traditional attire stand together besides each other with postures bent a little. Their hair is tied up into a high bun and each of them are holding an object.

The Japan of Pure Invention

Gilbert and Sullivan’s *The Mikado*

Josephine Lee
Background shows scored concrete with title in black and white in broadside. Subtitle and author appear angled against title letters.

Humanitarian Violence

The U.S. Deployment of Diversity

Neda Atanasoski
Title text at top in white against a red background, below, a drawing showing two men trading a crayfish and another man drawing.

Once Were Pacific

Māori Connections to Oceania

Alice Te Punga Somerville
Grayscale image of a hand holding a chainlink fence. At bottom subtitle and author appear in orange and red boxes; with main title above them.

We Are All Moors

Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities

Anouar Majid
Grayscale cover with image of a director speaking with an actor in costume on location, camera in background, transparent title text is layered over the image.

Self-Projection

The Director’s Image in Art Cinema

Linda Haverty Rugg
The cover depicts a room adorned with paintings on vertically standing boards. Strings traverse the room, particularly near the ceiling, creating an appearance reminiscent of spider webs.

Four Metaphors of Modernism

From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme

Jenny Anger
Background blending elements of the US, Palestinian, and Israeli flags with title and author name in center.

A Shadow over Palestine

The Imperial Life of Race in America

Keith P. Feldman
Black-and-white map of the streets and paths in Paris at top with solid green background below

Cartographic Cinema

Tom Conley
Native American sculpture in dark-colored wood against a triangle-patterned background.

Trans-Indigenous

Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies

Chadwick Allen

History on the Edge

Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100–1300

Michelle R. Warren

Ambient Media

Japanese Atmospheres of Self

Paul Roquet