University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Translating Pain
Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives. Translating Pain fills this gap by examining...
by Jonathan Ball
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave’ examines the Winnipeg filmmaker’s 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation. Crime Wave’s comic plot is simple: aspiring...
by Walden Scott Cram
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
A World of Love and Mystery is a collection of poetry divided into three parts written by the poet Walden Scott Cram.
Fields of Authority
Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and...
Literary Essays and Reviews
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing.
Among the subjects that come under the critic's...
by Robert McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Between 1912 and 1925, Ireland convulsed with political and revolutionary upheaval in pursuit of self-government. Canadians of Irish descent, both Catholic and Protestant, diligently followed these conflicts, and many became actively involved in the dramatic events overseas.
Irish Canadian...
Warming Up to the Cold War
Canada and the United States' Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
When U.S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada's government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent's government was forced to change its position however, when the Canadian populace, conditioned to significant degrees by...
Performing Autobiography
Contemporary Canadian Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In Performing Autobiography, Jenn Stephenson presents an innovative new approach to autobiography studies that links the growing field of research to drama. Stephenson’s analysis engages with performance histories to demonstrate the extent to which the dramatic form, which recasts autobiography...
Sisters or Strangers?
Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the...
Middleton & Rowley
Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances? For Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction proved quite beneficial for their work.
This first full-length...
Canada's Rural Majority
Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada’s rural population grew throughout the century after 1871 – even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere....
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
The Journals, Letters and Art of Anne Langton
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2008
Anne Langton (1804-1893) arrived in Upper Canada in 1837 to join her brother John on his settler farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario. An accomplished miniaturist, landscape artist, and writer, Langton documented ten years of family and community hardship and growth in her journals, letters, and art,...
The Lazier Murder
Prince Edward County, 1884
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them — Joseph Thomset and David Lowder — were sentenced to death by a jury...