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Cover of As For Sinclair Ross
by David Stouck
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005

Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door," is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the...
Cover of Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo
by Raffaello Borghini
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008

Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillation...
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David Adams Richards of the Miramichi

A Biographical Introduction to His Work

by Tony Tremblay
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010

Widely considered to be one of Canada's most important authors, David Adams Richards has been honoured with a Giller Prize and two Governor General's Literary Awards. Despite this, there has been a dearth of critical appraisal of his life and works. In David Adams Richards of the Miramichi, Tony Tremblay...
Cover of Comics Versus Art
by Bart Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue...
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A Meeting of Minds

The Massey College Story

by Judith Skelton Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Opened in 1963, Massey College is a residential college for graduate students at the University of Toronto. The college was the brainchild of Vincent Massey, Canada’s first native-born Governor General, who wanted to create an intellectually stimulating milieu like the one he associated with the...
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Harlequin in Hogtown

George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions

by Neil Carson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995

Toronto Workshop Productions was Toronto's first 'alternative' theatre, and for thirty years, from 1959 until its closure in 1989, it introduced audiences to a radically new form of theatre. Neil Carson's in-depth history of TWP traces the fortunes of many of its actors, writers, designers, and technicians...
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Theatre in French Canada

Laying the Foundations 1606-1867

by Leonard Doucette
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984

It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent,...
Cover of Le province de Quebec
by André Beaulieu, W.F.E. Morley, Benôit Bernier
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971

There is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources. This collection shows the durability, the vividness, and the astonishing productivity of a sector of history which is the stronghold...
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law

Quebec and the Canadas

by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013

The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec,...
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The Arts in Canada

The Last Fifty Years

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980

In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and Gérard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Michèle Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien...
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Red Quarter Moon

A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin

by Anne Konrad
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011

Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they became special objects of Soviet persecution....
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Mock Modernism

An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935

by Leonard Diepeveen
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

How was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was first emerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modernist literature and art were interpreted by journalists in daily newspapers, mainstream magazines like Punch and Vanity Fair, and literary magazines. In...
Cover of Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance
by Carolyn Springer
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010

During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained...
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Reconsidering C.B. MacPherson

From Possessive Individualism to Democratic Theory and Beyond

by Phillip Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

C.B. Macpherson occupies an ambiguous place in contemporary political thought.  Though his work is well known, it remains on the margins of current democratic theory. That marginalization, Phillip Hansen argues, comes from our failure to appreciate the underlying philosophical dimension of Macpherson’s...
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