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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530752
ISBN
9781557530752
Condition: New

€ 30.93

Paperback. A compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life. It presents what could be viewed as the sequel to Howe's intellectual autobiography, "A Margin of Hope". Editor(s): Goffman, Ethan; Rodden, John. Num Pages: 315 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557535511
ISBN
9781557535511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.94

Paperback. Robert Brasillach was executed in 1945 for what he wrote during the Nazi occupation of France. The author raises the question of whether he was condemned for his writing, or singled out as a homosexual; and why he was shot, when those responsible for the murder of thousands were set free. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226424156
ISBN
9780226424156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.02

paperback. Examines the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America, most of whom grew up in formerly communist countries. This collection chronicles and clarifies issues of personal and cultural dislocation and loss, but also affirms the possibilities of reorientation and renewal. Editor(s): Rosenfeld, Alvin H. Series: Jewish Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253219817
ISBN
9780253219817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

paperback. Trailblazing representations of black womanhood Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222466
ISBN
9780253222466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

hardcover. Beyond Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eighteenth-century writers, gender relations, and power politics as well. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802035400
ISBN
9780802035400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.70

hardcover. The first work to engage Shakespeare with distinctly Canadian debates addressing nationalism, separatism, cultural appropriation, cultural nationalism, feminism, and postcolonialism. Editor(s): Brydon, Diana; Makaryk, Irena R. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 42. Weight in Grams: 898.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780802036551
ISBN
9780802036551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.90

hardcover. Born in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, Constance Lindsay Skinner died in New York City in 1939, a successful and prolific writer. In contrast to her reputation in the United States, she remains virtually unknown in the country of her birth. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 701.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802036780
ISBN
9780802036780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

hardcover. This is an important and well-written study that provides a new depth of insight into Victorian ideology and working-class culture. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780802038883
ISBN
9780802038883
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.63

hardcover. With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, this book is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis. Editor(s): Baker, Peter S.; Howe, Nicholas. Series: Toronto Old English Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; CFFD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated.........
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802041531
ISBN
9780802041531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.98

hardcover. A new critical edition of the first Protestant catechism to be published in English. The editors' introduction establishes the historical, religious, social and cultural contexts out of which the work was born. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 670.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802043894
ISBN
9780802043894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.98

hardcover. Analyses three important Latin American novels in an attempt to redefine the nature of the picaresque, especially in regard to the roles of spontaneous play and carnivalesque laughter. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802047045
ISBN
9780802047045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.37

Paperback. Calin explores the 20th-century renaissance of literature in the minority languages of Scots, Breton, and Occitan, and demonstrates that all three literatures have evolved in a like manner, repudiating their romantic folk heritage. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802083654
ISBN
9780802083654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.40

paperback. Drawing on postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist, and First Nations theory, Hoy raises and addresses questions around 'difference' in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First Soft Cover Edition
SKU
V9780802084019
ISBN
9780802084019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.84

paperback. This wide-ranging examination of the genres of early modern women's writing embraces translation in the fields of theological discourse, romance and classical tragedy, original meditations and prayers, letters and diaries, poetry, closet drama, advice manuals, and prophecies and polemics. Series: Women's Writing in English. Num Pages: 480 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802086648
ISBN
9780802086648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

hardcover. Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies the techniques of various authors and filmmakers in their meeting of the gaze of dominant culture and their response to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 244 pages, 3ill. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802088314
ISBN
9780802088314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.64

hardcover. This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 820.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780802090850
ISBN
9780802090850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.90

hardcover. Literary Celebrity in Canada explores that space, drawing on current theories of celebrity and questioning their tendency to view fame as an empty phenomenon. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSK; JFCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802092823
ISBN
9780802092823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.03

paperback. Lavishly illustrated, this new edition includes family photographs and original graphics by both Helen Kemp and her father, S.H.F. Kemp, mostly dating from his own student days at the University of Toronto. Editor(s): Burgess, Margaret. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 688.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802094766
ISBN
9780802094766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 44.17

paperback. In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780802096425
ISBN
9780802096425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.62

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