University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Wooden Os
Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Wooden Os is a study of the presence of trees and wood in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries – in plays set within forests, in character dialogue, and in props and theatre constructions. Vin Nardizzi connects these themes to the dependence, and surprising ecological impact, of London’s...
Corporeal Bonds
The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco analyses novels by authors such as Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Mariateresa Di Lascia, and Elena Ferrante,...
by Silvia Valisa
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from...
Land and Book
Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons...
Epistolary Acts
Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received...
by Engin F. Isin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Previous notions of what constitutes "citizenship" within a country have been steadily challenged by the movement towards a globalized world. Examining the everyday habits of citizens and non-citizens, the contributors to Recasting the Social in Citizenship show how citizenship has increasingly...
Be a Good Soldier
Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and ‘be good soldiers.’ How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the...
Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust'
German and Intercultural Stagings
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. Notably, Bennewitz conducted...
Tumultuous Decade
Empire, Society, and Diplomacy in 1930s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
The 1930s was a dark period in international affairs. The Great Depression affected the economic and social circumstances of the world’s major powers, contributing to armed conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. This volume focuses exclusively on Japan, which witnessed...
On Friendship and Freedom
The Correspondence of Ignazio Silone and Marcel Fleischmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Ignazio Silone, the anti-fascist, Italian author and political activist, continues to intrigue readers and stimulate their minds nearly four decades after his death. On Friendship and Freedom contains the first published collection of correspondence between Silone and his longtime friend the philanthropist...
Life in Words
Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann. Bringing together her essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and Malory, the collection foregrounds the common interest in the semantic implications of key vocabulary such as...
Lonergan in the World
Self-Appropriation, Otherness, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In his philosophical classic Insight, Catholic philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan introduced the concept of self-appropriation – the personal search for knowledge of the self, and through that of the world – as the basis for systematic philosophical investigation.
In Lonergan in...
Fackenheim's Jewish Philosophy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Emil L. Fackenheim, one of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, is best known for his deep and rich engagement with the implications of the Nazi Holocaust on Jewish thought, Christian theology, and philosophy. However, his career as a philosopher and theologian began two...
Making North America
Trade, Security, and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Much has been written about the trilateral relationship between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and the free trade agreements that this relationship has spawned. In Making North America, James Thompson uses the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement of 1988 and the North American Free Trade Agreement...