Ohio State University Press: 123 books
The Politics of Ecology
Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life...
by J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the direction of literary studies. What is less well-known is that he has been equally influential in Conrad studies with his work on nihilism, language, and narrative in Joseph...
Metafilm
Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
In Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema, Christopher Carter examines paradoxical rhetoric in visual culture, analyzing movies that immerse viewers in violent narratives while examining the ethics of the transaction. Featuring the films of Michael Haneke, Atom Egoyan, Icíar Bollaín,...
Ethics in the Gutter
Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations, have been the objects...
by Peter W. Culicover, Elizabeth V. Hume
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Learning a language involves so much more than just rote memorization of rules. Basics of Language for Language Learners, 2nd edition, by Peter W. Culicover and Elizabeth V. Hume, systematically explores all the aspects of language central to second language learning: the sounds of language, the...
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature
Literary and Cultural Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
In their comprehensive study Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature: Literary and Cultural Essays, editors Jesús Rosales and Vanessa Fonseca provide a fresh set of perspectives on the field of Chicano literary and cultural studies. Composed of essays by scholars who live and work in the United...
Resilient Memories
Amerindian Cognitive Schemas in Latin American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
Arij Ouweneel’s Resilient Memories*: Amerindian Cognitive Schemas in Latin American Art *takes a cognitive approach to the mediation of collective memory by works of art. In looking at cultural production of Amerindians—the transnational mnemonic community comprised of indígenas, originarios, *mestizos, *and cholos—Ouweneel...
Beyond Tordesillas
New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies is the first volume of its kind to be published in English. Bringing together young and established scholars, it seeks to consolidate the vital work being done on the connections between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds...
Mobility and Modernity
Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated languages...
La Verdad
An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
From its earliest days, hip hop was more than just music, encapsulating the ideas of community and exchange. Artists like Mellow Man Ace and Kid Frost opened doors by infusing Spanish into their lyrics, calling for racial and social equality; others employed hip hop to comment on the effects of neo-liberalization...
Chaucer on Screen
Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Unlike William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and other great authors who have enjoyed continued success in Hollywood, Geoffrey Chaucer has largely been shunted to the margins of the cinematic world. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales, edited by Kathleen...
The Problem Body
Projecting Disability on Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new approach to the study of film by concentrating on cinematic representations of what they term “the problem...
by Florence Saunders Boos
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Florence S. Boos’s History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855–1870 examines Morris’s literary development in the context of his Victorian contemporaries, probing the cross-influences of temperament, cultural ambiance, early reader reactions, and his restless search for...
Clashing Convictions
Science and Religion in American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction is the first study to identify a body of twentieth-century American fiction that represents the increasing tensions experienced by people of Christian faith in response to Darwinism, the higher biblical criticism, and modern medicine....