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by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Northrop Frye’s The Secular Scripture was first published in 1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works, reflecting an extensive development of Frye’s thoughts about romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular...
by Paul McEwan
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2011
Consistently ranked as one of the best Canadian movies of all time, punk-rock mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996) documents the last-ditch reunion tour of an aging rock band led by vocalist Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon). Well received by critics at the time of its release, the film continues to enjoy a devoted...
Paddling Her Own Canoe
The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who 'talked back' to Euro-Canadian culture. Paddling Her Own Canoe is the only major scholarly study that examines...
Recognizing Aboriginal Title
The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine that had stood for two hundred years, that the country was a terra nullius – a land of no one – when the white man arrived. The proceedings were known as the Mabo Case, named for Eddie Koiki Mabo, the...
by Sean Carney
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Through an in-depth analysis of over sixty of their works, Sean...
The Politics of Humour
Laughter, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes—while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics...
by Alfred Harbage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Here is a book to hearten playgoers, stimulate young actors, lead theatrical executives to reconsider methods of management, and encourage benefactors to open their wallets. In this new book (containing the Alexander Lectures for 1954-55), Mr. Harbage, distinguished critic and scholar, advocates a...
Systems and Computer Science
Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Western Ontario September 10-11, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965. The primary purposes of the Conference were the promotion of research and the development of the teaching of computer science in Canadian universities....
Fields of Authority
Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and...
One Job Town
Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada’s resource periphery. Much like hundreds of other towns...
Arts and Science at Toronto
A History, 1827-1990
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science is older than the university itself. Chartered in 1827 as King’s College, it officially opened in 1843 with four professors and twenty-seven students. In this lively and engaging book, Robert Craig Brown vividly recounts the 150-year history...
by Nella Cotrupi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
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, Dr. Cotrupi explores the implications...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and...
Literary Essays and Reviews
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing.
Among the subjects that come under the critic's...