Ohio State University Press: 123 books
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...
Landfall
A Ring of Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
In this ring of connected short stories, grounded in the fictional town of Conrad’s Fork, Kentucky, everyone is staging some sort of escape. A woman harboring the dark truth about her youngest daughter’s birth, a new teacher suddenly under suspicion after a student’s disappearance, a young girl...
by BK Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
A novella in verse, *Radioapocrypha *envisions what would have happened if Jesus Christ had arrived for the first time not in Palestine two thousand years ago but in a subdivision in Maryland in 1989, the year Depeche Mode released “Personal Jesus.” In this suburban retelling of the gospel,...
Women's Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition
Choice, Chance, and Serendipity
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
This collection, edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Tiffany Bourelle, contributes to the valuable work of chronicling the professional and personal lives of women in academia. Through its line-up of contributors from diverse backgrounds, locations, and career paths,* Women’s Professional Lives in...
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence,...
Disappear Here
Violence after Generation X
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Generation X, comprised of people born between 1960 and 1980, is a generation with no Great War or Depression to define it. Dismissed as apathetic slackers and detached losers, Xers have a striking disregard for the causes and isms that defined their Boomer parents. In Disappear Here: Violence after...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Media of Serial Narrative, edited by Frank Kelleter, is the first book-length study to address the increasingly popular topic of serial narratives—specifically, how practices and forms of seriality shape media throughout the landscape of popular culture. In modern entertainment formats, seriality...
The Immigrant Kitchen
Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora, Vivian Nun Halloran examines food memoirs by immigrants and their descendants and reveals how their treatment of food deeply embeds concerns about immigrant identity in the United States. Halloran argues that by offering a glimpse into the authors’...
Mama's Gun
Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
In Mama’s Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression, Marlo D. David identifies five bold, new archetypes of black motherhood for the post-civil rights generation in order to imagine new ways of thinking about pervasive maternal stereotypes of black women. Rather than avoiding...
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally...
Political Appetites
Food in Medieval English Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
*Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance *is the first book-length examination of the cultural and theoretical resonances of food and cooking in medieval English literature, offering a new assessment of the vexed and critically underappreciated genre of romance. Aaron Hostetter moves...
Challenging Communion
The Eucharist and Middle English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically and simplistically embracing the Eucharist, *Challenging Communion: The Eucharist...
by Kelly A. Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, Kelly A. Marsh examines the familiar, overt plot of the motherless daughter growing into maturity and argues that it is accompanied by a covert plot. Marsh’s insightful analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century...