Publishing Division: 2717 books
by Jonathan Ball
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave’ examines the Winnipeg filmmaker’s 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation. Crime Wave’s comic plot is simple: aspiring...
by Walden Scott Cram
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
A World of Love and Mystery is a collection of poetry divided into three parts written by the poet Walden Scott Cram.
The West Beyond the West
A History of British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
British Columbia is regularly described in superlatives both positive and negative - most spectacular scenery, strangest politics, greatest environmental sensitivity, richest Aboriginal cultures, most aggressive resource exploitation, closest ties to Asia. Jean Barman's The West beyond the West presents...
Breadwinning Daughters
Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2010
As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and...
Reclaiming the Don
An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
A small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York...
by Tom McSorley
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2009
One of Canada's pre-eminent auteur filmmakers, Atom Egoyan has been celebrated internationally, earning multiple awards from the prestigious Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals and an Academy Award nomination. One of his most accomplished and controversial early works, The Adjuster, is a dark drama...
by Robert Legget
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
'Many years ago, I decided to write a book about the Rideau Canal. It is, therefore, with mixed feelings that I see that Robert Legget has beaten me to the tape. He is to be congratulated ... The definitive work on the Rideau has been written, and I shall value my copy.' Eric Arthur
Since the...
Heidegger and Homecoming
The Leitmotif in the Later Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Martin Heidegger's philosophical works devoted themselves to challenging previously held ontological notions of what constitutes "being," and much of his work focused on how beings interact within particular spatial locations. Frequently, Heidegger used the motifs of homelessness and homecoming...
The Defining Decade
Identity, Politics, and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
The 1960s witnessed a radical transformation in the Canadian Jewish community. The erosion of longstanding barriers of anti-Semitism resulted in increased access for Jews to the economic, political, and social Canadian mainstream. Arguing paradoxically that even as Canada became more accepting, Canadian...
Tuscan Spaces
Literary Constructions of Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M....
by David D. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2007
During the early decades of the twentieth century, Italy produced distinctive innovations in both the intellectual and political realms. On the one hand, Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) and Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) spearheaded a radical rethinking of historicism and philosophical idealism that significantly...
Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature
Figures of Subjectivity in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2008
The mobility of women is a central issue in feminist analysis of literary works and historical periods. Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature explores the concept of the journey from feminist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial perspectives, in order to offer an alternative understanding...
Methods of Murder
Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda.
Many scholars have argued that detective fiction...
Labour Before the Law
The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major...