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The Wrong Door
The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Bringing together the eleven plays Ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death, this volume directs attention to Ginzburg's unique talent as a dramatist.
Ginzburg's...
by William Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1996
In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries).
Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek...
Justifying Our Existence
An Essay in Applied Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2009
In his magnum opus Being in Time (1927), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) argued that individuals have assumed that their existence is "a given," when in actual fact they simply have the ability to be. Justifying Our Existence examines the ways in which human beings attempt to calm their existential...
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye
Apocalypse and Alchemy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and...
by Carlo Goldoni
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.
Five Comedies collects...
Cry of the Eagle
Encounters with a Cree Healer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
After a vision in which he beheld himself as a leader in the revitalization of native medicine and culture, medicine man Russell WIllier began to share his healing practices and world view with three anthropologists. In this volume they describe how WIllier treats chronic, stress-related condition...
Recovering Canada
The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Canada is covered by a system of law and governance that largely obscures and ignores the presence of pre-existing Indigenous regimes. Indigenous law, however, has continuing relevance for both Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. In his in-depth examination of the continued existence and application...
Euripidean Drama
Myth, Theme and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
It is a commonly held view among historians of Greek literature that with the advent of Euripides the tragic structure, even the tragic outlook of Greek drama suffered a breakdown from which it never recovered. While there is much truth in this opinion, it has tended to put too much emphasis on "Euripides...
The CTR Anthology
Fifteen Plays from Canadian Theatre Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
Since its inception in 1974, *Canadian Theatre Review *has been one of the most important publishers of new Canadian plays. With a script in each issue, CTR has introduced new writers and advocated new approaches to Canadian drama.
This volume brings together fifteen of the most significant...
by Alvin A. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2009
This volume, which collects Northrop Frye's writings on the theory of literary criticism from the middle period of his career, includes one of Frye's own favourites, The Critical Path (1971). A highly important marker of Frye's career, The Critical Path openly addresses topics that he had previously...
Indirections
Shakespeare and the Art of illusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
The precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters. In Shakespeare's plays the relation between audience and stage life is crucial. The plays constantly remind the audience of the complex...
Some Facets of King Lear
Essays in Prismatic Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art. Like a prism, King Lear is attractive; like a prism, it is a multiply shaped thing; like a prism, it is an object of admiration, as well as an instrument of analysis.
The...
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...
Don Quixote Among the Saracens
A Clash of Civilizations and Literary Genres
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest — the creation of a modern novel that ‘conquers’ and assimilates countless literary genres. Don Quixote among the Saracens...