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The U.E.
A Tale of Upper Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
A long narrative written in rhyming couplets and presented in 12 cantos, The U.E. tells the story of Walwyn and his sons, Ethwald and Eric, who come to Upper Canada from Yorkshire in the late 1820s, and the United Empire Loyalist Ranger John and his sons, Herman, Hendrick, Simcoe, and Hugh. The poem...
Encounters on the Passage
Inuit Meet the Explorers
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search...
The Emblematics of the Self
Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Ancient Greek Romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization....
Postal Culture
Writing and Reading Letters in Post-Unification Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The nationalization of the postal service in Italy transformed post-unification letter writing as a cultural medium. Both a harbinger of progress and an expanded, more efficient means of circulating information, the national postal service served as a bridge between the private world of personal communication...
Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas
Textualities, Intellectual Disputes, Intercultural Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain’s American colonies. That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is now time for a study that examines the full range of that...
Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli
Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
By 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions...
The Drama of the Assimilated Jew
Giorgio Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His personal experience...
by Margherita Heyer-Caput
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2008
Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) was the author of many influential novels and remains one of the most significant Italian women writers of her time. However, critics tend to pigeonhole her works into convenient literary categories and to ignore the uniqueness of her style and voice. Grazia Deledda's Dance...
Modern Italian Poets
Translators of the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In 1948, the poet Eugenio Montale published his Quaderno di traduzioni and created an entirely new Italian literary genre, the “translation notebook.” The quaderni were the work of some of Italy’s foremost poets, and their translation anthologies proved fundamental for their aesthetic and cultural...
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages
Transcultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the...
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes...
The Matter of Mind
Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to...
Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal
François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France’s "Great Century" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablière and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher...
Quiet Evolution
A Study of the Educational System of Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
During the past few years there have been several changes in the educational system of Ontario: a reorganization of the Department of Education, the abolition of the school section, the establishment of post-secondary institutions of applied arts and technology, and the reform of Grade 13. Others...