Ohio State University Press imprint: 99 books
Reality Bites
Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, *Reality Bites, *which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility,...
by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Contemporary Advances in Theoretical and Applied Spanish Linguistic Variation by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana, reframes the understanding of language variation and change as an intimate interplay between both linguistic features and social factors always occurring in unison in the same historical process. Its...
Good Words
Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
This new study explores how evangelicalism played a vital role in the development of the Victorian novel. In contrast to those who see the evangelical movement as trivial to our histories of the novel and part of the losing side in religion’s battle with secularity, Good Words: Evangelicalism and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the...
Waiting for the Sky to Fall
The Age of Verticality in American Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative by Ruth Mackay traces the figures of flight, grievous falls, and collapsing towers, all of which haunt American narratives before and after 9/11. Mackay examines how these events prefigure 9/11, exploring the narrative residue...
Reimagining the Middle Passage
Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
In Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, Tara T. Green turns to twentieth- and recent twenty-first-century representations of the Middle Passage created by African-descended artists and writers. Examining how these writers and performers revised and...
Ancient Sex
New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Ancient Sex: New Essays presents groundbreaking work in a post-Foucauldian mode on sexuality, sexual identities, and gender identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Since the production of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, the field of classics has been caught in a recursive loop of argument regarding...
Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men
Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
*Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture *by Keridiana W. Chez is the first monograph located at the intersection of animal and affect studies to examine how gender is produced via the regulation of interspecies relationships. Looking specifically...
Narratology and Ideology
Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures in the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While narrative theory has...
by Joshua King
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print, Joshua King demonstrates how nineteenth-century Britons turned to the printed page to imagine themselves in Christian communities spanning their nation. In contrast with traditional views of the nineteenth century, which regard the period...
by Casey Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In response to the pervasiveness of emerging communication technologies, Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice argues that information be understood as an embodied, material practice. The guiding proposition for this book is that digital rhetoric now concerns how bodies, broadly construed, become informed...
Narrative Theory
Core Concepts and Critical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates addresses two frequently asked questions about narrative studies: “what is narrative theory?” and “how do different approaches to narrative relate to each other?” In engaging with these questions, the book demonstrates the diversity and...
A Theology of Sense
John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Scott Dill’s A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature brings together theology, aesthetics, and the body, arguing that Updike, a central figure in post-1945 American literature, deeply embeds in his work questions of the body and the senses...
Seeming Human
Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character offers a new theory of realist character through character’s unexpected afterlife: the intelligent machine. The book contends that mid-twentieth-century versions of artificial intelligence (AI) offer a theory of verisimilitude...