University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by Van Kingsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This primer is directed to air contamination control personnel, air engineers, whose only contact with bacteriology is usually their responsibility for providing "white" surroundings in industry and research. Professor Kingsley provides most basic information and describes problems in bacteriology...
The Silvering Screen
Old Age and Disability in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2011
Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt,...
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities
A Rough Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2002
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways...
Learning to School
Federalism and Public Schooling in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Among countries in the industrialized world, Canada is the only one without a national department of education, national standards for education, and national regulations for elementary or secondary schooling. For many observers, the system seems impractical and almost incoherent. But despite a total...
Orality and Literacy
Reflections across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments. Rejecting the 'great-divide' theory of orality and literacy as separate and opposite to one another, the contributors posit that whatever meanings...
Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare
The Debt Never Promised
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Some of Shakespeare's most memorable male characters, such as Hamlet, Prince Hal, and Edgar, are defined by their relationships with their fathers. In Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare, Fred B. Tromly demonstrates that these relationships are far more complicated than most critics have assumed. While...
Immigrants in Prairie Cities
Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada. The Reader is the perfect textbook for undergraduate courses in Race and Ethnic Studies,...
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2000
Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade...
Filipinos in Canada
Disturbing Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized...
by William Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1996
In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries).
Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek...
Justifying Our Existence
An Essay in Applied Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2009
In his magnum opus Being in Time (1927), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) argued that individuals have assumed that their existence is "a given," when in actual fact they simply have the ability to be. Justifying Our Existence examines the ways in which human beings attempt to calm their existential...
by Carlo Goldoni
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.
Five Comedies collects...
The CTR Anthology
Fifteen Plays from Canadian Theatre Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
Since its inception in 1974, *Canadian Theatre Review *has been one of the most important publishers of new Canadian plays. With a script in each issue, CTR has introduced new writers and advocated new approaches to Canadian drama.
This volume brings together fifteen of the most significant...