Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Living Chronic
Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Diabetes, referred to as an epidemic for more than a decade, remains one of our most significant health issues in the twenty-first century. Because self-management is an important component of living with the disease, the biomedical concept of patient agency has long stressed notions of individual...
Divergent Trajectories
Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
*Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers *by Flore Chevaillier examines the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction through a series of interviews with some of today’s most cutting-edge fiction writers. New relationships between...
A Passion for Specificity
Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
In an analytical yet increasingly intimate conversation, *A Passion for Specificity:*Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science investigates the differences between experience as conveyed in literature and experience as apprehended through scientific method. Can experiences be shared?...
Varro the Agronomist
Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Some six years after his narrow escape from proscription in 43 bce, Marcus Terentius Varro, the “most learned” of the Romans, wrote a technical treatise on farming in the form of a satirico-philosophical dialogue. Grant A. Nelsestuen argues that far from simply being just another encyclopedic...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Across disciplines, scholars have employed theories of precarity to help explain the pervasiveness of problems related to labor, migration, biopolitics, global and state governance, economies of war and violence, poverty, environmental degradation, and a host of other pressing issues. Precarous Rhetorics is...