University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi
A Humorist Potrays the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2008
Giovannino Guareschi (1908-1968) was an Italian journalist, humorist, and cartoonist best known for his short stories based on the fictional Catholic priest Don Camillo. In this study, Alan R. Perry explores the Don Camillo stories from the perspective of Christian hermeneutics, a unique approach...
Alliances
Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
When Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists work together, what are the ends that they seek, and how do they negotiate their relationships while pursuing social change? Alliances brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, activists, and scholars in order to examine their experiences of...
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye
Apocalypse and Alchemy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and...
The Artist as Monster
The Cinema of David Cronenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
PAPERBACK INCLUDES TWO NEW CHAPTERS
David Cronenberg is one of the most fascinating filmmakers in the world today. His provocative work has stimulated debate and received major retrospectives in museums, galleries, and cinematheques around the world. William Beard's The Artist as Monster was...
by Marshall McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before.
Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since,...
Why Theatre Matters
Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the...
by Eliza Haywood
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, controversial, and sometimes disturbing, Haywood’s short novels The Masqueraders and The Surprize are valuable sources for the study of eighteenth-century...
Unsettling Partition
Literature, Gender, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006
The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan.
Diverse...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's combination of poetry and homiletic prose has generated intense scholarly debate, and there is no consensus...
The World of Dante
Six Studies in Language and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
In celebration of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante in 1265 the Dante Society of Toronto invited six internationally known scholars to address its members. Believing that the greatest tribute to Dante lies in the constant acquisition of a deeper knowledge of his work, the Society prescribed...
The Invisible Crown
The First Principle of Canadian Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The Crown is not only Canada’s oldest continuing political institution, but also its most pervasive, affecting the operation of Parliament and the legislatures, the executive, the bureaucracy, the courts, and federalism. However, many consider the Crown to be obscure and anachronistic. David E....
Pride in Modesty
Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects...
At the Limits of Justice
Women of Colour on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their...