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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
One of the chief characteristics of nineteenth-century poetics was a tendency to test the conventions and techniques of literary genres by shifting, modifying, and combining various styles and forms. Browning fully exploited these changes, because his interests and purposes as …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For centuries Latin served as an international language for scholars in Europe. Yet as early as the first half of the seventeenth century, scholars, philosophers, and scientists were beginning to turn their attention to the possibility of formulating a totally …
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The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known …
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Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
As rates of illegal drug use increase, the debates over drug policy heat up. While some believe penalties should be harsher, others advocate complete decriminalisation. Certainly, debate over the 'war on drugs' is not new. In the early 1920s, as …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Nella Cotrupi's Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process sheds a new conceptual light on Frye, successfully bringing him back into the central ring of contemporary critical thought. Challenging the often dismissive view of Frye's work as closed and outdated, …
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Etude quantitative
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Quantitative studies furnish precise and complete numerical data about the nature of literary language and language in general. They provide the foundation for qualitative studies that can contribute to the analysis, interpretation and understanding of style, language, and ideas for …
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Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In The Land of Weddings and Rain, Gediminas Lankauskas examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding religious and civil ceremonies, traditional imagery and practices, and the conspicuous consumption of domestic and imported goods in the context of the Western-style …
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Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in <i>Persiles</i>
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The study of language was central to the thinking of Tennyson and his circle of friends. The period of his education was a time of interest in the subject, as a new form of philology became widely known and accepted …
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The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Rather than reading small-town representations in Canadian literature as portraits of a parochial past or a lost golden age, this book claims that they are best understood as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in an ever-more cosmopolitan world. …
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Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Welfare Hot Buttons provides one of the first comparative assessments of contemporary social policy change in three Western countries: Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Sylvia Bashevkin probes the fate of single mothers on social assistance during the period …
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Experiences of Urban Transformation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers lived in an environment filled with smoky factories, crowded homes, and lively thoroughfares. Sights, sounds, and smells flooded their senses, while changing conceptions …
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Developments in Public Order Policing in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Massive public protests have had a prominent presence at the turn of the millennium, with many thousands of protestors controlled by small, yet, increasingly specialized police forces. Investigating the ways in which police practices have evolved in relation to labour …
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CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Other Stately Pleasures
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common? Each is a popular symbol of Canadian identity, seen across the country and beyond on television and in other forms of media. But whose definition of …
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Under What Terms and Conditions?
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Canada is facing a critical period in its history. The Royal Society of Canada believed it had the responsibility to instigate both deep reflection and debate within the vast and diverse intellectual network it represents throughout Canada. In November 1996, …
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A Critical Edition
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike. The book is the first to deal fully with the poem as literature and to supply the runic background necessary for an understanding of …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Disease and death are a part of life, but so too is being well. The lively voices found in this book are not shy about stating the ways in which the widely held notion that they are in decline has …
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Shakespeare and the Art of illusion
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters. In Shakespeare's plays the relation between audience and stage life is crucial. …
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Organice una excelente velada para disfrutar con sus amigos de las recetas propuestas en este libro, seleccionadas entre lo mejor de la cocina espanola. Faciles de realizar y con ingredientes al alcance de todos, estas pequenas creaciones estan concebidas para …
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Nacido para la caza, el golden retriever ha conocido en nuestro pais, gracias a su versatilidad, capacidad para el adiestramiento y belleza, el exito que ya habia conseguido en el resto del mundo. Este libro describe los origenes de esta …
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El fox terrier es un perro de caracter noble, afectuoso y valiente que ha sido empleado para la caza del zorro. Este manual le descubrira todas las caracteristicas del fox terrier, historicas y morfologicas, que se describen e ilustran con …
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En la ultima decada, la peluqueria canina ha experimentado en nuestro pais un desarrollo espectacular. Lo que hasta hace unos anos era un oficio artesano ha ido evolucionando hasta convertirse en una profesion artistica en la que hay que trabajar …
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