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Life Writing in an Age of Trauma
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, …
View book details for The Quest for Justice
Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This collection of many voices develops more deeply and exhaustively the issues raised in the editors earlier volume, Pathways to Self-Determination. It contains some twenty-three papers from representatives of the aboriginal peoples organizations, of governments, and of a variety of …
View book details for Transforming Kafka
Translation Effects
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafkas novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick ONeill approaches these texts through the method he pioneered in Polyglot Joyce …
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Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible range of evidence that includes judicial …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of …
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Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Where many critics see the Internet as an instrument of corporate hegemony, Michael Strangelove sees something else: an alternative space inhabited by communities dedicated to anarchic freedom, culture jamming, alternative journalism, and resistance to authoritarian forms of consumer capitalism and …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's combination of poetry and homiletic prose has generated intense scholarly debate, and there is …
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Translators of the Impossible
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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 Italys foremost poets, and their translation anthologies proved fundamental for …
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Monstrous Generation in the Takes of Straparola and Basile
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known …
View book details for In the Power of the Government
The Rise and Fall of Newsprint in Ontario, 1894-1932
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists who developed Canadas natural resources, such as pulpwood, water power, and minerals. With In the Power of the Government, Mark Kuhlberg …
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Sir William Phips, 1651-1695
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Born in 1651 in what is now Maine, William Phips became a sea captain out of Boston, an adventurer in search of Spanish treasure in the Caribbean. He captured and plundered Port Royal in Acadia, now Nova Scotia, and led …
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Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience. In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A long-awaited companion volume to T.K. Pratt's Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, this delightful collection includes more than 1,000 proverbs, folk sayings, catchphrases, and idioms characteristic of the speech and attitudes of Prince Edward Islanders. Laid out in 72 …
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Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this literary moment. In Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz explores how these male writers and their readers took …
View book details for The Drama of the Assimilated Jew
Giorgio Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Giorgio Bassani (19162000) 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 …
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The Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal Policy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
On September 6, 1995, Dudley George was shot by Ontario Provincial Police officer Kenneth Deane. He died shortly after midnight the next day. George had been participating in a protest over land claims in Ipperwash Provincial Park, which had been …
View book details for Catastrophic Injuries in Sports and Recreation
Causes and Prevention - A Canadian Study
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Catastrophic Injuries in Sport and Recreation is an essential reference guide to safe participation in a wide variety of sports and recreational activities. A masterful achievement of methodology, it is the first complete epidemiological study and analysis of all catastrophic …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the Toronto 18, Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security. As governments respond to the potential threat of homegrown radicalism, many observers …
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The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotias South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (18441914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
In this brief essay, esteemed medieval historian Edouard Jeauneau examines a much-debated question in medieval intellectual history: did the famous School of Chartres actually exist? Gracefully acknowledging the suggestion by Sir Richard Southern in 1965 that the School was actually …
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Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard 1880-1922
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
During the fin-de-siecle and early revolutionary eras, picture postcards were an important medium of communication for Russians of all backgrounds. In Open Letters, the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada, Sean T. Cadigan has written the book that will surely become the definitive history of one of North America's most distinct and beautiful regions. The site of …
View book details for Public Policy For Women
The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs. The volume's contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume, which collects Northrop Frye's writings on the theory of literary criticism from the middle period of his career, includes one of Frye's own favourites, The Critical Path (1971). A highly important marker of Frye's career, The Critical Path …
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Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
One of twentieth-century Italy's greatest thinkers, Primo Levi (1919-1987) started reflecting on the Holocaust almost immediately after his return home from the year he survived in Auschwitz. Levi's powerful Holocaust testimonials reveal his preoccupation with processes of translation, in the …
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