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by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
'Frye was a person of uncommon gifts, and very little that came from his pen is without interest.' So writes Robert Denham in his introduction to this unique collection of twenty-two papers written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one...
Into the Past
The Cinema of Guy Maddin
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2010
Guy Maddin started making films in his back yard and on his kitchen table. Now his unique work, which relies heavily on such archaic means as black and white small-format cinematography and silent-film storytelling, premieres at major film festivals around the world and is avidly discussed in the...
The Artist as Monster
The Cinema of David Cronenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
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David Cronenberg is one of the most fascinating filmmakers in the world today. His provocative work has stimulated debate and received major retrospectives in museums, galleries, and cinematheques around the world. William Beard's The Artist as Monster was...
by Colin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature...
The Great Reversal
How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation performance enhancing drugs, elective biotechnology, and gastric bypass surgery. Have we let technology go too far in this respect? In The Great Reversal, David...
by Lorraine York
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants...
Urban Housing Markets
Recent Directions in Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
The Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.
This volume is at once...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems? How are we to understand the role of bioethics in the health care system, government, and academe? This collection of original essays raises these and other questions about the nature of bioethics as a discipline. The contributors to the...
Leading the Modern University
York University’s Presidents on Continuity and Change, 1974-2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Founded in 1959, York University is now the second largest university in Ontario and third largest university in Canada. However, starting in 1970s the success of the university was far from guaranteed.
Leading the Modern University documents the challenges and solutions that five successive...
by Marshall McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before.
Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communication Studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and Media Studies considers the ways in which...
'We Are Still Didene'
Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Detailing the history of the aboriginal village of Iskut, British Columbia over the past 100 years, ‘We Are Still Didene’ examines the community's transition from subsistence hunting to wage work in trapping, guiding, construction, and service jobs.
Using naturally occurring, extended...