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American Periodicals

The American Periodical Journal.
American Periodicals, the official publication of the Research Society for American Periodicals, is devoted exclusively to scholarship and criticism relating to American magazines and newspapers of all periods. It includes essays, notes, reviews, bibliographies, and histories on all aspects of American periodicals, from the earliest 18th-century magazines to the 21st-century 'zines and e-journals.

The Journal

The Journal.
The Journal, originally titled The Ohio Journal, was founded in 1973 by William Allen of the English Department at The Ohio State University, and has been published continuously ever since. David Citino served as Editor from 1985 to 1990. Michelle Herman and Kathy Fagan became Fiction Editor and Poetry Editors, respectively, in 1990 and have maintained The Journal’s commitment to publishing the best work by new and emerging writers around Ohio and the nation, including writing not easily classified by genre, excerpts from novels, longer stories, and other daring or wholly original pieces.

Literature & History

Literature and History.
Literature & History is a biannual international refereed journal that considers the relations between writing, history and ideology. It provides an open forum for practitioners coming from the distinctive vantage points of either discipline (or from other adjacent subject areas) to explore issues of common concern: period, content, gender, class, nationality, changing sensibilities, discourse and language. Unique in its essentially plural identity, Literature & History began publication in 1975 and since 1992 has appeared under the imprint of Manchester University Press. Special issues devoted to a particular period or theme (produced under guest editorship) are published from time to time. Literature & History is a well known, theoretically self-conscious, and much referred to landmark in interdisciplinary studies and has consistently attracted contributions of high calibre. Among the distinguished panel of editors for this journal is Ohio State University professor John N. King.

Narrative

Narrative Cover.
Narrative is the official journal of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, the association for scholars interested in narrative. Narrative's broad range of scholarship includes the English, American, and European novel, nonfiction narrative, film, and narrative as used in performance art. the journal is edited by James Phelan at The Ohio State University.

Poetics Today

Poetics Today.
Poetics Today, on the Project Muse Web site, brings together scholars from throughout the world who are concerned with developing systematic approaches to the study of literature (e.g., semiotics and narratology) and with applying such approaches to the interpretation of literary works. Poetics Today presents a remarkable diversity of methodologies and examines a wide range of literary and critical topics.

Prose Studies

Prose Studies.
Prose Studies is a peer-reviewed forum for discussion of the history, theory and criticism of non-fictional prose of all periods. While the journal publishes studies of such recognized genres of non-fiction as autobiography, biography, the sermon, the essay, the letter, the journal etc., it also aims to promote the study of non-fictional prose as an important component in the profession's ongoing re-configuration of the categories and canons of literature. Interdisciplinary studies, articles on non-canonical texts and essays on the theory and practice of discourse are also included. Co-Editors are Ronald Corthell and Clare A. Simmons; Christopher Highley is Book reviews Editor; and Nicholas Hetrick is Editorial Assistant.

Reformation

Reformation is the leading English-language journal for the publication of original research in scholarship of the Reformation era. It is sponsored by the Tyndale Society and will be published annually by Equinox starting with Volume 11, 2006 (December) in print and online. It is edited by John N. King with the book review editor and associate editor being Hannibal Hamlin. For more information contact: reformation@osu.edu.

Storyworlds

The term storyworld refers to the world evoked by a narrative, whether that narrative takes the form of a printed text, film, graphic novel, sign language, everyday conversation, or even a tale that is projected but is never actualized as a concrete artifact. But how do modes of storytelling--narrative ways of worldmaking--differ from other representational practices used to construct or reconstruct worlds, in a broad sense? What tools are needed to characterize, in all its richness and complexity, the experience of inhabiting a narrative world in a given medium or across different media? What are the conditions for and consequences of engaging with such worlds, and how does this engagement vary across different narrative practices, cultural settings, and interpretive communities? The purpose of Storyworlds is to provide a forum for sustained scholarly inquiry into these and related issues, whose investigation will require collaborative, interdisciplinary work by researchers from across the arts and sciences.
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