Ohio University Press: 522 books
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...
Conjuring Freedom
Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's “Gospel Army”
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
*Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” *analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as a religious, political,...
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...
Tarpeia
Workings of a Roman Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
According to legends of Rome’s foundation, Tarpeia was a maiden who betrayed Romulus’ city to the invading Sabines. She was then crushed to death by the Sabines’ shields and her body hurled from the Tarpeian Rock, which became the place from which subsequent traitors of the city were thrown....
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....
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...