Ohio State University Press imprint: 99 books
Suture and Narrative
Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film by George Butte offers a new phenomenological understanding of how fiction and film narratives use particular techniques to create and represent the experience of community. Butte turns to the concept of suture from Lacanian film theory...
Permissible Narratives
The Promise of Latino/a Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In his groundbreaking new study, Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature, Christopher González examines the difficulties Latina/o writers face in writing beyond the narrow expectations of U.S. readership in the stories they tell. González argues that a constrained conception...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ho, and Shaun Morgan, is the first book-length volume of essays devoted to studying the intersection of race/ethnicity and narrative theories. Each chapter offers a sustained engagement with narrative theory...
Russian Grotesque Realism
The Great Reforms and the Gentry Decline
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Russian Grotesque Realism: The Great Reforms and the Gentry Decline offers a comprehensive reevaluation of the Russian realist novel and proposes that a composite style, “grotesque realism,” developed in response to social upheaval during the post-Reform era. In this compelling new study, Ani...
Novel Nostalgias
The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth Century U.S. Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature establishes how the longing to recover a lost home or past drove some of the central conflicts of the nineteenth-century United States. Providing one of the few U.S. literary histories that examines cultural material...
by Jill Galvan, Elsie Michie
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie bring together top Victorian scholars to scrutinize nineteenth-century marriage in incisive ways. The volume puts marriage in conversation with many aspects of culture, from education and anthropology to...
by Robert R. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
From the twelfth century onwards, medieval English writers adapted the conventions of high literary culture to establish themselves as recognized authors and claim a significant place for works of imagination beside those of doctrine and instruction. Their efforts extended over three languages—Latin,...
by Steele Nowlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
In this book, Steele Nowlin examines the process of poetic invention as it is conceptualized and expressed in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) and John Gower (ca. 1330–1408). Specifically, it examines how these two poets present invention as an affective force, a process characterized...
The Medieval Risk-Reward Society
Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Medieval Risk-Reward Society offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg—showing how a society based on sacrifice becomes a society based on...
by Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism brings together scholars working in prehistoric, classical, medieval, and early modern studies who are developing, from longer and slower historical perspectives, critical post/humanisms that explore: 1) the significance (historical, sociocultural, psychic,...
by Stacie Cassarino
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In her new study, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature, Stacie Cassarino traces the tradition of avant-garde food experimentation across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how a fixation on the materiality of edible things, expressed through the...
The Drunken Duchess of Vassar
Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Classical Scholar
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
In this biography, Barbara McManus recovers the intriguing life story of Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866–1946), Professor of Greek at Vassar College and the first woman classicist to focus her scholarship on the lives of ancient Greco-Roman women. Fondly known as “the Drunken Duchess,” although...
Affective Ecologies
Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Affective Ecologies: Empathy*, *Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology....
Novelization
From Film to Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common, but not as widely known are adaptations with the opposite relationship. In Novelization: From Film to Novel, Jan Baetens explores how transforming an original film or screenplay into a novel establishes a new genre and revises our understanding...