University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Philippe de Commynes
Memory, Betrayal, Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the French throne. He is credited with inventing the political memoir, but his reminiscence has also been described...
The Court Book of Mende and the Secular Lordship of the Bishop
Recollecting the Past in Thirteenth-Century Gévaudan
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
Mende is a diocese in south-central France where, in the 1260s, scribes of Bishop Odilon de Mercoeur created an extensive court book or register of litigated cases. Their intention was to develop an archive for the use of the chancery as well as to preserve the causae of the episcopal court. These...
Bringing in the Sheaves
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The annual harvesting of cereal crops was one of the most important economic tasks in the Roman Empire. Not only was it urgent and critical for the survival of state and society, it mobilized huge numbers of men and women every year from across the whole face of the Mediterranean. In Bringing in the...
Stillness in Motion
Italy, Photography, and the Meanings of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of photography, this collection offers essays, interviews,...
Path of Thorns
Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Under Bolshevik and Nazi rule, nearly one-third of all Soviet Mennonites – including more than half of all adult men – perished, while a large number were exiled to the east and the north by the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Others fled westward on long treks, seeking refuge in Germany during the...
Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills...
by Michael R. Marrus
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes.
In...
by Constantine Bida
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the thematic conventions of populist literature,...
The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine
Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough...
Women Novelists Before Jane Austen
The Critics and Their Canons
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question...
The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass
L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery’s books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery’s fiction, Epperly argues that Montgomery was much more than a master of...
Descartes's Legacy
Mind and Meaning in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Debates current in the philosophy of mind regarding the gathering and processing of information, and the nature of perception and representation, also animated some of the most important figures in early modern philosophy, among them Descartes, Hume, and Berkeley. The authors of Descartes's Legacy:...
Secrets of the Oracle
A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives? In Secrets of the Oracle, David Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written.
Wisdom...
Looking Into Providences
Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or ‘designs’ that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the ‘trials,’...