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Literature: history & criticism

An insightful history of book reviewing as a genre and a detailed study of its role in Italian literary culture, Reviewing Mario Pratesi opens up a new area for investigation within Italian literary studies. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648715
ISBN
9781442648715
Condition: New

€ 60.32

This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 780.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648654
ISBN
9781442648654
Condition: New

€ 79.37

For more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. My Havana is a lyrical exploration of Varela's life and work, and of the vibrant musical, literary, and cinematic culture of his generation. Editor(s): Cumana, Maria Caridad; Dubinsky, Karen; De La Cruz, Xenia Reloba. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AVG; DSB; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647718
ISBN
9781442647718
Condition: New

€ 79.37

Alien Albion challenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647190
ISBN
9781442647190
Condition: New

€ 70.47

Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century. Num Pages: 544 pages. .
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442646964
ISBN
9781442646964
Condition: New

€ 95.87

Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an 'embodied soul' for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; 3JB; DSBB; HRCS1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442644281
ISBN
9781442644281
Condition: New

€ 79.37

Hardback. The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; 2ADT; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442644052
ISBN
9781442644052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.59

By linking Frye's classic studies to exciting recent approaches in the humanities and the cognitive revolution of the past few decades, Body of Vision casts Frye's achievements in a fascinating new light. Series: Frye Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643918
ISBN
9781442643918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.40

Through new readings of works including Lord Jim and The Portrait of a Lady, Artese demonstrates how the cultural conditions that worked against testimony fed into a nascent conflict about the meaning of modernism itself. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643680
ISBN
9781442643680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.96

By comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland's Piers Plowman and similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643475
ISBN
9781442643475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.47

Falling into Matter examines the complex role of the body in the development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442641983
ISBN
9781442641983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.28

hardcover. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
New
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442640566
ISBN
9781442640566
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.05

Suellen Diaconoff situates French-language texts from Moroccan women writers in a discourse of social justice and reform, arguing that they contribute to the emerging national debate on democracy and help to create new public spaces of discourse and participation. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442640054
ISBN
9781442640054
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.82

In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradovic analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region's literary culture. Obradovic argues that the crisis of the country's disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442629547
ISBN
9781442629547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.77

paperback. The papers throw light on the nature and history of the evolution of the atlas as a book, and also on the atlas as a 'text' of contemporary times. Editor(s): Winearls, Joan. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442615076
ISBN
9781442615076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

paperback. Series: Chaucer Bibliographies. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBB; DSR; GBCR; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division United States
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442614857
ISBN
9781442614857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 43.16

paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; CFP; DCF; DSBB; DSC; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442613126
ISBN
9781442613126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.49

paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DSB; DSC; HPCB; HRKN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442613119
ISBN
9781442613119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442612969
ISBN
9781442612969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.50

paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442612938
ISBN
9781442612938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.22

hardcover. The first book to focus exclusively on hockey in print, Canadian Hockey Literature is an accessible work that challenges popular perceptions of a much-beloved national pastime. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802099846
ISBN
9780802099846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.74

hardcover. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which allowed rulers to hold power due to approval of their subjects. Num Pages: 432 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSBD; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802098146
ISBN
9780802098146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.06

hardcover. Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period. Editor(s): Dick, Alexander; Esterhammer, Angela. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802098030
ISBN
9780802098030
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.82

hardcover. Modernist Goods examines such writers as Yeats, Conrad, Eliot, Woolf, Beckett, H.D., and Joyce to uncover what the author views as their displaced aboriginality and to investigate the relationship between literary modernism and aboriginal modernity. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802097699
ISBN
9780802097699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.37

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