University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Shakespeare and the Second World War
Memory, Culture, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim...
by Colin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian...
The Great Reversal
How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation performance enhancing drugs, elective biotechnology, and gastric bypass surgery. Have we let technology go too far in this respect? In The Great Reversal, David...
'We Are Still Didene'
Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Detailing the history of the aboriginal village of Iskut, British Columbia over the past 100 years, ‘We Are Still Didene’ examines the community's transition from subsistence hunting to wage work in trapping, guiding, construction, and service jobs.
Using naturally occurring, extended...
OuterSpeares
Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation, noted scholars of Shakespeare and new media consider the ways in which various media...
Roman Literary Cultures
Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors...
Bad Time Stories
Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts between...
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land
English-Canadian Children and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort.
Susan...
Roman Social Imaginaries
Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor,...
My Final Territory
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as public intellectual he has received numerous awards including the Herder Prize, Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Goethe Medal.
My Final Territory is a collection...
by David S. Danaher
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres – poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and political speeches – he left behind a range of...
Writing the Yugoslav Wars
Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the exception of Christie's Miss Marple, the names of female detectives and their authors have only recently...
Lorca in Tune with Falla
Literary and Musical Interludes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Federico García Lorca (1889-1936) is widely regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century; Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) is Spain’s most performed composer of the same period. The two were very different – Lorca was gay, liberal, and a member of the avant garde, while Falla was...