Ohio University Press: 522 books
Drawing the Line
Comics Studies and INKS, 1994–1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and INKS, 1994–1997 collects some of the most important essays from INKS: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted exclusively to comics studies. The volume, edited by Lucy Shelton Caswell, the journal’s founding editor,...
Antiquarian Voices
The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid's Fasti
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Ovid’s Fasti, his poem on the Roman calendar, became especially influential during the fifteenth century as a guide to classical Roman culture. Ovid’s treatment of mythological and astronomical lore, his investigation of anniversaries and customs, and his charting of monuments and history offered...
Secular Scriptures
Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
With Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante, William Franke reexamines the role that literature plays in theological revelation. In the modern world, secularism typically means the exclusion of God from the world. Yet Franke, recognizing that secularity itself is built...
Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic Sexuality, Literature, Archives
Sexuality, Literature, Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives examines one of the most fascinating sexual renegades of the twentieth century and the social, cultural, pedagogical, and erotic projects with which he was engaged. This innovative collection, edited by Debra A. Moddelmog...
by Aaron Ngozi Oforlea
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, Aaron Ngozi Oforlea explores the rhetorical strategies that Baldwin’s and Morrison’s black male characters employ as they negotiate discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. According to Oforlea, these characters...
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...