University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by Vladimir Propp, Paul J. Perron, Jean-Patrick Debbèche
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Molière, and Shakespeare. The...
From Plato to Lumière
Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, André Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust,...
Margaret the First
A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Margaret Cavendish was one of the most original, loveable and eccentric of women writers. Pepys called her "mad, ridiculous, and conceited" but when she paid her famous visit to London in 1667 he ran all over town to see her. And many of her other contemporaries were no less fascinated....
by Jo Ann Cavallo
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516)....
Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati
The Reprehension of Vice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’
Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty...
Hidden in Plain Sight
Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
The acclaimed and accessible Hidden in Plain Sight series showcases the extraordinary contributions made by Aboriginal peoples to Canadian identity and culture. This collection features new accounts of Aboriginal peoples working hard to improve their lives and those of other Canadians, and serves...
Charlotte Lennox
An Independent Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense...
Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana
The Encounter between the LoDagaa and 'the World on Paper'
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
This book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines – from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology – the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium...
Exploiting Erasmus
The Erasmian Legacy and Religious Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Desiderius Erasmus' humanist works were influential throughout Europe, in various areas of thought including theology, education, philology, and political theory. Exploiting Erasmus examines the legacy of Erasmus in England from the mid-sixteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688 and studies...
Religion, Redemption and Revolution
The New Speech Thinking Revolution of Franz Rozenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Religion, Redemption, and Revolution closely examines the intertwined intellectual development of one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Franz Rosenzweig, and his friend and teacher, Christian sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. The first major English work on Rosenstock-Huessy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate...
Figuring the Feminine
The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary...
Christ and History
The Christology of Bernard Lonergan from 1935 to 1982
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Because of illness and age the Jesuit theologian and philosopher Bernard Lonergan never completed the systematic study on Christology, the doctrine concerning the person of Christ, that he had planned to write. Christ and History, written by his former student Frederick E. Crowe, is an attempt to...
by Wayne Dowler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Native soil was a mid-nineteenth-century Russian reaction against materialism and positivism. It emphasized the need for people to live their lives and develop themselves naturally, so that class difference might be reconciled, the achievements of the West fused with the communalism and Christian...