Ohio State University Press: 123 books
The Art of Vision
Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
One of the most common ways of setting the arts in parallel, at least from the literary side, is through the popular rhetorical device of ekphrasis. The original meaning of this term is simply an extended and detailed, lively description, but it has been used most commonly in reference to painting...
Dickens's Forensic Realism
Truth, Bodies, Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence by Andrew Mangham is one of the first studies to bring the medical humanities to bear on the work of Dickens. Turning to the field of forensic medicine (or medical jurisprudence), Mangham uncovers legal and medical contexts for Dickens’s ideas...
The Writer in the Well
On Misreading and Rewriting Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
In The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature, Gary Weissman takes readers inside Ira Sher’s short story “The Man in the Well,” about a group of children who discover a man trapped in an old well and decide not to help him. While absorbing readers in the pleasurable activity...
Narrative Theory Unbound
Queer and Feminist Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Under the bold banner of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions, editors Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser gather a diverse spectrum of queer and feminist challenges to the theory and interpretation of narrative. The first edited collection to bring feminist, queer, and narrative...
Somebody Telling Somebody Else
A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
In Somebody Telling Somebody Else, James Phelan proposes a paradigm shift for narrative theory, a turn from viewing narrative as a structure to viewing it as a rhetorical action in which a teller selectively deploys the resources of storytelling in order to accomplish particular purposes in relation...
Between Pen and Pixel
Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2018
2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work
In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to...
The Religion of Empire
Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism is the first full-length study devoted to interpreting Blake’s three long poems, showing the ways in which the Bible, myth, and politics merge in his prophetic symbolism. In this book, G. A. Rosso examines the themes of...
Literatures of Liberation
Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
The postcolonial spread of democratic ideals such as freedom and equality has taken place all over the world despite the widespread cultural differences that would seem to inhibit such change. In her new book, Literatures of Liberation: *Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progres**s, *Mukti Lakhi Mangharam questions...
Style and the Single Girl
How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922–1977
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograph to use fashion theory and history to trace the literary progress of British women in later modernity,...
by Talvikki Ansel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The poems in Talvikki Ansel’s Somewhere in Space work to locate us in this world and its mix of the made and natural, the cultivated and untamable. Faced with such mysteries and intricacies as the water-conducting tissue of trees, the sensory abilities of vultures, the lives of past writers (Edith...
Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England
Language Choice and Literary Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Medieval England’s specific political and linguistic history encompasses a great number of significant changes, some of the most disruptive of which were occasioned by the Norman Conquest. The alliterative proverb, with roots in Old English and continued vitality in Middle English, serves as a unique...
Post-Personal Romanticism
Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Post-Personal Romanticism: Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life by Bo Earle offers a broad recasting of Romantic lyric’s formal innovations in terms of Hegel’s historical ethics. These innovations attempt to come to terms with the Enlightenment’s paradoxical...
Narrative Theory
Core Concepts and Critical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
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...
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...