Michael S Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1031738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael S Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1877-6426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
This book tells the story of mass Incarceration in America through the writers who experienced it first-hand. It begins at mid-century with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, whose insights about racism and the criminal justice system warned of what was to come. It takes off in the 1960s and 1970s with revolutionary writers like George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, seeking liberation not just from prison but the oppressive s…
The Dynamics of Triangulation in Cervantes’s El amante liberal
This essay analyzes Miguel de Cervantes’s El amante liberal as a type of psychomachia that dramatizes the battle between two systems of interpersonal triangulation that change and mold the conduct and character of the protagonist Ricardo, and to a degree, of the other protagonist Leonisa. René Girard’s mimetic desire, which degrades and dehumanizes individuals, and St. Thomas Aquinas’s Christian friendship, which foments love and generosity, are …
Blanco, Mercedes, project dir. Góngora et les querelles littéraires de la Renaissance / Góngora y las polémicas literarias del Renacimiento (GQL/GPL; Góngora and the literary polemics of the Renaissan…
Blanco, Mercedes, project dir. Góngora et les querelles littéraires de la Renaissance / Góngora y las polémicas literarias del Renacimiento (GQL/GPL; Góngora and the literary polemics of the Renaissance). Other.. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Spaces of Power of the Spanish Nobility (1480–1715)), on Érudit
Metaphor and Matter(s) Arising
This article focuses on the concept of metaphor as metaphorai, as varied means of transfer and transport, specifically on Góngora's innovative development of the metaphor as a vehicle for experiential transformation and epistemological exploration; ultimately emphasizing a hitherto neglected valorization of affect in the liberation of the imagination. Although Góngora's use of metaphor became a major source of controversy in the debate unleashed …
Echoing Romance
This essay examines Avatar's echoing of longstanding romance conventions while creating ecocentric romance or ecoromance, providing insight into the ecological ideology that informs the movie, while suggesting how and why romance remains such an enduring and popular fictional form
Cervantes' Epic Novel
Michael Armstrong-Roche. Cervantes' Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in “Persiles.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xiv + 406 pp. index. append. bibl. $70. ISBN: 978–0–8020–9085–0. - Volume 63 Issue 1
The Shaping of Collective Memory in Lope's Isidro (1599)
Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature
An Interview with Edwidge Danticat
An Interview with Edwidge Danticat Michael S. Collins (bio) and Edwidge Danticat (bio) This interview was conducted via telephone on May 30, 2007, between College Station, Texas, and Miami, Florida. COLLINS: Dr. Rowell told me that when you received the Afro-Mexican issue, you were so struck and moved by it that you sent a short story to Callaloo, as a result. I'm just wondering, what struck you so about the issue? DANTICAT: I just loved it. I th…
Trymaine Lee
Trymaine Lee with Michael S. Collins COLLINS: Are you from New Orleans, originally? LEE: No, I'm from New Jersey, originally . . . I was working in Philadelphia—well, I was living in Philadelphia—and working at a newspaper in Trenton, New Jersey. I came down for the work at the newspaper here, and I got here about four months before the storm. COLLINS: Do you have a special beat as a reporter? LEE: Police, cops. COLLINS: What are the things that …
"From "News from the Lost Continent
From "News from the Lost Continent" Michael S. Collins (bio) 6. The gossip in the marketplace, in schools (which the conqueror reopened), in pools, at recreation centers and offices (likewise reopened) pitted friend against friend—voices loud, contorted faces— debating just who the traitor might be. Some said Vikki da Sita, mayor of the capitol city, carrier of whispers from this embassy to that important ear, the great love Of half-a-dozen digni…
Biggie Envy and the Gangsta Sublime
Biggie Envy and the Gangsta Sublime Michael S. Collins (bio) "[Violence] is as American as cherry pie." —H. Rap Brown "Damn—niggas want to stick me for my paper!" —Biggie Smalls "In other words, there is no real other than that which has been represented through imagery." —Todd Boyd 1. Introduction The beautiful murder, the murder lifted into the mind by "winged words," is in many ways the heartbeat of American culture—indeed, of all western cult…
Officer Sabrina Richardson
Officer Sabrina Richardson with Michael S. Collins COLLINS: Are you from New Orleans, originally? RICHARDSON: Yes, I am born and raised in New Orleans. I grew up in New Orleans East. So yes, the house that I grew up in was under water for two weeks. Actually, my apartment—I was living out in Metairie, so my apartment was actually fine. I had minor roof damage, but my parents lost everything. My parents and my sister, they lost it. My whole family…
Rafael C. Goyeneche, III
Rafael C. Goyeneche, III with Michael S. Collins COLLINS: During the last month, there have been twenty murders in New Orleans and deputy police chief John Bryson suggested that this is in part because FEMA money is running out and, with no where else to go, some of those displaced by Katrina have returned to New Orleans and begun selling drugs to make a living. Do you agree with that? GOYENECHE: Oh, gosh. That's my first time hearing that. Is it…
"Lopes "Arcadia
Lope de Vega's pastoral romance Arcadia (1598) presents a fictionalized self-portrait of the author looking back on himself as a younger man, and, at the same time, constitutes a refashioning of the artist into a cultured poet articulating his own poetics. Lope employs the oneiric potential of pastoral to reshape the past imaginatively, even as he engages creatively with pastoral conventions to execute a virtuoso performance as a poet and establi…
Orfeo and the Cratyline Conspiracy in Unamuno's Niebla
BSS Subject Index: MYTH/MYTHOLOGYNIEBLA [M. DE UNAMUNO]ORPHEUS [MYTH/MYTHOLOGY]SPAIN — LITERATURE — 18th–19th CENTURIES — PROSESPAIN — LITERATURE — 20th CENTURY — PROSEUNAMUNO, MIGUEL DE (1864–1936)
Elegy for Ron Brown
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Crash
Michael S. Collins is an assistant professor of English at Texas A & M University in College Station. He has published poems, articles and reviews in a number of periodicals, including Callaloo, The New Leader, Parnassus, and Salamander
The Little Speech
Michael S. Collins is an assistant professor of English at Texas A & M University in College Station. He has published poems, articles and reviews in a number of periodicals, including Callaloo, The New Leader, Parnassus, and Salamander
Six Sketches
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Poetry
Michael S. Collins is an assistant professor of English at Texas A & M University in College Station. He has published poems, articles and reviews in a number of periodicals, including Callaloo, The New Leader, Parnassus, and Salamander
The Contemporary Spanish Theater
Love in Absence
ALTHOUGH critics have greatly admired Lope de Vega's ability as a dramatist, they have largely overlooked his ability as a lyric poet. The few studies that deal with this aspect of his work have mainly discussed his treatment of popular lyric forms.' His skillful and sensitive manipulation of the sonnet (a learned lyric form) has largely been ignored. A few of the sonnets in Rimas humanas (1602) and Rimas sacras (1614) have inspired closer examin…
Biggie Envy and the Gangsta Sublime
Biggie Envy and the Gangsta Sublime Michael S. Collins (bio) "[Violence] is as American as cherry pie." —H. Rap Brown "Damn—niggas want to stick me for my paper!" —Biggie Smalls "In other words, there is no real other than that which has been represented through imagery." —Todd Boyd 1. Introduction The beautiful murder, the murder lifted into the mind by "winged words," is in many ways the heartbeat of American culture—indeed, of all western cult…
Love in Absence
ALTHOUGH critics have greatly admired Lope de Vega's ability as a dramatist, they have largely overlooked his ability as a lyric poet. The few studies that deal with this aspect of his work have mainly discussed his treatment of popular lyric forms.' His skillful and sensitive manipulation of the sonnet (a learned lyric form) has largely been ignored. A few of the sonnets in Rimas humanas (1602) and Rimas sacras (1614) have inspired closer examin…
Love in Absence
ALTHOUGH critics have greatly admired Lope de Vega's ability as a dramatist, they have largely overlooked his ability as a lyric poet. The few studies that deal with this aspect of his work have mainly discussed his treatment of popular lyric forms.' His skillful and sensitive manipulation of the sonnet (a learned lyric form) has largely been ignored. A few of the sonnets in Rimas humanas (1602) and Rimas sacras (1614) have inspired closer examin…
The Contemporary Spanish Theater
Orfeo and the Cratyline Conspiracy in Unamuno's Niebla
BSS Subject Index: MYTH/MYTHOLOGYNIEBLA [M. DE UNAMUNO]ORPHEUS [MYTH/MYTHOLOGY]SPAIN — LITERATURE — 18th–19th CENTURIES — PROSESPAIN — LITERATURE — 20th CENTURY — PROSEUNAMUNO, MIGUEL DE (1864–1936)
Elegy for Ron Brown
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Crash
Michael S. Collins is an assistant professor of English at Texas A & M University in College Station. He has published poems, articles and reviews in a number of periodicals, including Callaloo, The New Leader, Parnassus, and Salamander
The Little Speech
Michael S. Collins is an assistant professor of English at Texas A & M University in College Station. He has published poems, articles and reviews in a number of periodicals, including Callaloo, The New Leader, Parnassus, and Salamander
Six Sketches
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Poetry
Michael S. Collins is an assistant professor of English at Texas A & M University in College Station. He has published poems, articles and reviews in a number of periodicals, including Callaloo, The New Leader, Parnassus, and Salamander
"Lopes "Arcadia
Lope de Vega's pastoral romance Arcadia (1598) presents a fictionalized self-portrait of the author looking back on himself as a younger man, and, at the same time, constitutes a refashioning of the artist into a cultured poet articulating his own poetics. Lope employs the oneiric potential of pastoral to reshape the past imaginatively, even as he engages creatively with pastoral conventions to execute a virtuoso performance as a poet and establi…
Trymaine Lee
Trymaine Lee with Michael S. Collins COLLINS: Are you from New Orleans, originally? LEE: No, I'm from New Jersey, originally . . . I was working in Philadelphia—well, I was living in Philadelphia—and working at a newspaper in Trenton, New Jersey. I came down for the work at the newspaper here, and I got here about four months before the storm. COLLINS: Do you have a special beat as a reporter? LEE: Police, cops. COLLINS: What are the things that …
"From "News from the Lost Continent
From "News from the Lost Continent" Michael S. Collins (bio) 6. The gossip in the marketplace, in schools (which the conqueror reopened), in pools, at recreation centers and offices (likewise reopened) pitted friend against friend—voices loud, contorted faces— debating just who the traitor might be. Some said Vikki da Sita, mayor of the capitol city, carrier of whispers from this embassy to that important ear, the great love Of half-a-dozen digni…
Biggie Envy and the Gangsta Sublime
Biggie Envy and the Gangsta Sublime Michael S. Collins (bio) "[Violence] is as American as cherry pie." —H. Rap Brown "Damn—niggas want to stick me for my paper!" —Biggie Smalls "In other words, there is no real other than that which has been represented through imagery." —Todd Boyd 1. Introduction The beautiful murder, the murder lifted into the mind by "winged words," is in many ways the heartbeat of American culture—indeed, of all western cult…
Officer Sabrina Richardson
Officer Sabrina Richardson with Michael S. Collins COLLINS: Are you from New Orleans, originally? RICHARDSON: Yes, I am born and raised in New Orleans. I grew up in New Orleans East. So yes, the house that I grew up in was under water for two weeks. Actually, my apartment—I was living out in Metairie, so my apartment was actually fine. I had minor roof damage, but my parents lost everything. My parents and my sister, they lost it. My whole family…
Rafael C. Goyeneche, III
Rafael C. Goyeneche, III with Michael S. Collins COLLINS: During the last month, there have been twenty murders in New Orleans and deputy police chief John Bryson suggested that this is in part because FEMA money is running out and, with no where else to go, some of those displaced by Katrina have returned to New Orleans and begun selling drugs to make a living. Do you agree with that? GOYENECHE: Oh, gosh. That's my first time hearing that. Is it…
Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature
An Interview with Edwidge Danticat
An Interview with Edwidge Danticat Michael S. Collins (bio) and Edwidge Danticat (bio) This interview was conducted via telephone on May 30, 2007, between College Station, Texas, and Miami, Florida. COLLINS: Dr. Rowell told me that when you received the Afro-Mexican issue, you were so struck and moved by it that you sent a short story to Callaloo, as a result. I'm just wondering, what struck you so about the issue? DANTICAT: I just loved it. I th…
The Shaping of Collective Memory in Lope's Isidro (1599)
Cervantes' Epic Novel
Michael Armstrong-Roche. Cervantes' Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in “Persiles.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. xiv + 406 pp. index. append. bibl. $70. ISBN: 978–0–8020–9085–0. - Volume 63 Issue 1
Echoing Romance
This essay examines Avatar's echoing of longstanding romance conventions while creating ecocentric romance or ecoromance, providing insight into the ecological ideology that informs the movie, while suggesting how and why romance remains such an enduring and popular fictional form
Metaphor and Matter(s) Arising
This article focuses on the concept of metaphor as metaphorai, as varied means of transfer and transport, specifically on Góngora's innovative development of the metaphor as a vehicle for experiential transformation and epistemological exploration; ultimately emphasizing a hitherto neglected valorization of affect in the liberation of the imagination. Although Góngora's use of metaphor became a major source of controversy in the debate unleashed …
Blanco, Mercedes, project dir. Góngora et les querelles littéraires de la Renaissance / Góngora y las polémicas literarias del Renacimiento (GQL/GPL; Góngora and the literary polemics of the Renaissan…
Blanco, Mercedes, project dir. Góngora et les querelles littéraires de la Renaissance / Góngora y las polémicas literarias del Renacimiento (GQL/GPL; Góngora and the literary polemics of the Renaissance). Other.. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Spaces of Power of the Spanish Nobility (1480–1715)), on Érudit
The Dynamics of Triangulation in Cervantes’s El amante liberal
This essay analyzes Miguel de Cervantes’s El amante liberal as a type of psychomachia that dramatizes the battle between two systems of interpersonal triangulation that change and mold the conduct and character of the protagonist Ricardo, and to a degree, of the other protagonist Leonisa. René Girard’s mimetic desire, which degrades and dehumanizes individuals, and St. Thomas Aquinas’s Christian friendship, which foments love and generosity, are …
The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
This book tells the story of mass Incarceration in America through the writers who experienced it first-hand. It begins at mid-century with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, whose insights about racism and the criminal justice system warned of what was to come. It takes off in the 1960s and 1970s with revolutionary writers like George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, seeking liberation not just from prison but the oppressive s…
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