University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Exorcism and Its Texts
Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Exorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures. In Exorcism and Its Texts, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors, ranging from canonical classics...
Company Towns
Corporate Order and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital. Neil White challenges this interpretation by exploring how these communities were altered at the local level through human agency, missteps, and chance. Far from being homogeneous,...
Unfinished Business
Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade. It provides insightful analyses of popular films that sensationalize violence, scapegoat women, or repress the homosexuality of male protagonists. Dana Renga examines these works through the lens of gender and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Independent Filmmaking around the Globe calls attention to the significant changes taking place in independent cinema today, as new production and distribution technology and shifting social dynamics make it more and more possible for independent filmmakers to produce films outside both the mainstream...
April in Paris
Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
Attracting over fifteen million visitors, the 1925 Paris Expo had an ambitious goal to create a new modernist style which would reflect the great scientific, industrial, and technological advances that produced a new spirit known as "modern." In April in Paris, author Irena R. Makaryk explores...
Exchanges in Exoticism
Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered...
by Barbara Fuchs, Emily Weissbourd
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume...
The Ovidian Vogue
Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan England
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
The Roman poet Ovid was one of the most-imitated classical writers of the Elizabethan age and a touchstone for generations of English writers. In The Ovidian Vogue, Daniel Moss argues that poets appropriated Ovid not just to connect with the ancient past but also to communicate and compete within...
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Volume I: A-F plus Map and Gazetteer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.
The Spanish Arcadia
Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political...
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter
Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third...
Love's Refraction
Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Popular wisdom might suggest that jealousy is an inevitable outcome of non-monogamous relationships. In Love’s Refraction, Jillian Deri explores the distinctive question of how and why polyamorists – people who practice consensual non-monogamy – manage jealousy. Her focus is on the polyamorist...
The Vast Design
Patterns in W.B. Yeats's Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
In recent years Yeats has been receiving a great deal of critical attention from many aspects. Professor Engelberg here makes a distinctive contribution to the new studies by bringing under discussion the kind of aesthetic views developed by Yeats in order to rationalize his own practice as poet and...
by Christopher Bundock
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Romantic writers invoked prophecy throughout their work. However, the failure of prophecy to materialize didn’t deter them. Why then do Romantic writers repeatedly invoke prophecy when it never works? The answer to this question is at the heart of Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism.
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