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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction. For the introduction and for each of the poems there is an extensive and …
View book details for Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1984
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The General Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the most enduring works of English literature. Beloved by scholars, teachers, students, and general readers, it has been given a great many different interpretations. This annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century …
View book details for Chaucer's Knight's Tale
An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1985
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
As the first of the Canterbury Tales, the Knight's Tale attracts special attention, particularly in relation to the overall structure of the work and to the other tales. It has been the subject of a vast body of comment by …
View book details for Misconceptions
Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1921, despite the passing of legislation intended to ease the consequences of illegitimacy for children (Children of Unmarried Parents Act), reformers in Ontario made no effort to improve the status of unwed mothers. Furthermore, the reforms that were passed …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russias troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not …
View book details for Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons
Court and Career in the Writings of Rudolf Agricola Junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Every epoch has its artists, thinkers, and creators, and behind many of these people, there is a patron waiting in the wings. Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons looks at the relationship between humanist scholars and …
View book details for Cinema and Semiotic
Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
'Meaning' in cinema is very complex, and the flood of theories that define it have, in certain ways, left cinematic meaning meaningless. Johannes Ehrat's analysis of meaning in cinema has convinced him that what is needed is greater philosophical reflection …
View book details for Clio in the Clinic
History in Medical Practice
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Sometimes, history can solve a medical mystery; at other times, it can point to the right treatment or console a despairing doctor by demonstrating a timeless connection to unchanging aspects of human existence. In Clio in the Clinic, twenty-three doctors, …
View book details for Refocusing Crime Prevention
Collective Action and the Quest for Community
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Despite widespread concern over crime, public participation in local crime prevention programs is generally low and limited to a small, homogeneous group of middle-class home-owing residents. Conspicuously absent from these programs are the very people who are the most vulnerable …
View book details for Companions of the Peace
Diaries and Letters of Monica Storrs, 1931-1939
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1929 a cultured English gentlewoman arrived in the barely settled wilderness of northern British Columbia as an Anglican missionary, intending to assuage her sense of duty by staying for one year. She stayed for twenty-one. The years covered by …
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The Cinema of Guy Maddin
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Guy Maddin started making films in his back yard and on his kitchen table. Now his unique work, which relies heavily on such archaic means as black and white small-format cinematography and silent-film storytelling, premieres at major film festivals around …
View book details for Compassionate Canadians
Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Do Canadians, as a group, possess a strong ethical code when thinking about human rights issues? They do, according to Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann who has analyzed the responses of 78 civic leaders from Hamilton, Ontario whom she interviewed over several …
View book details for Conscience and Its Critics
Protestant Conscience, Enlightenment Reason, and Modern Subjectivity
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Conscience and Its Critics is an eloquent and passionate examination of the opposition between Protestant conscience and Enlightenment reason in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Seeking to illuminate what the United Nations Declaration of Rights means in its assertion that …
View book details for A.M. Klein: Complete Poems
Part I: Original poems 1926-1934; Part II: Original Poems 1937-1955 and Poetry Translations (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
It is for his poetry that A.M. Klein is best known and most warmly remembered. This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of …
View book details for A Heritage of Light
Lamps and Lighting in the Early Canadian Home
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The nineteenth century opened in the flicker of tallow candles and closed in the glare of Edison's electric lamp. Between those two events inventors and manufacturers developed a wonderful assortment of progressively more efficient lighting devices, burning a variety of …
View book details for A Science on the Scales
The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In A Science on the Scales, Jennifer M. Hubbard tells the story of how a new and emerging science - marine and fisheries biology - became an important enterprise in Canada. She uses extensive archival research - focussed on scientific …
View book details for After Poststructuralism
Writing the Intellectual History of Theory
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Every history of theory is simultaneously a theory of history. Rajan and O'Driscoll's wide-ranging volume tackles the issue of providing an intellectual history of theory, given a considerable continuity between theory and the history of ideas, and also given theory's …
View book details for Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power
Critical Perspectives from around the World
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The global expansion in judicial power has led to a growing interest in the way judges are chosen. Reform of the judicial selection process is on the political agenda in many countries but the nature of that process differs according …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Alfred Valdmanis is best known in Canada for his infamous role in Premier Joey Smallwood's scheme to industrialize Newfoundland. A Latvian immigrant, he was appointed Director General of Economic Development in 1950 with the understanding that through his connections to …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A knowledge of proverbs contributes to a number of things, wrote Erasmus in his Introduction to the Adages, but to four especially: philosophy, persuasiveness, grace and charm in speaking, and the understanding of the best authors... This volume contains the …
View book details for George Grant
A Guide to His Thought
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
George Grant (1918-1988) is widely regarded as one of Canada's most influential philosophers and political theorists. His best-known work, Lament for a Nation (1965), presented a radical reinterpretation of Canadian history and inspired a surge of nationalist sentiment across the …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Medieval Icelandic authors wrote a great deal on the subject of England and the English. This new work by Magnus Fjalldal is the first to provide an overview of what Icelandic medieval texts have to say about Anglo-Saxon England in …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this collaborative work seventeen international scholars use contemporary methodologies to address the ways in which we understand Gothic church buildings today. Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings discusses major monuments that have traditionally stood at the core of medieval art-historical …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Life Among the Yanomami builds on literature and the author's personal experience of the northern Brazil people, the Mucajai Yanomami, with whom he lived from 1958 to 1967 and whom he has since frequently visited. The result is a rich …
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Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Appearing through developments in medicine, in volatile debates over abortion rights, in popular guides to pregnancy, and in advertisements for cars and long-distance telephone plans, the fetus has become an increasingly familiar part of our social landscape in Canada. Lisa …
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