Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
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
Condition: New
€ 57.77
€ 57.77
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
Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
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
€ 59.05
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
€ 74.28
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
€ 70.47
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
€ 53.96
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
€ 65.40
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
€ 61.59
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.37
€ 79.37
The Secrets of Generation. Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century...
. Ed(S): Stephanson, Raymond; Wagner, Darren
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.87
€ 95.87
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.47
€ 70.47
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.37
€ 79.37
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.37
€ 79.37
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.32
€ 60.32
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe's "culture of dissection" to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442648869
- ISBN
- 9781442648869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.55
€ 75.55
In Cervantes and the Literature of War, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes's complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare. Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; DSB; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649125
- ISBN
- 9781442649125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.40
€ 65.40
hardcover. Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini's prose, poetry, and cinema. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649743
- ISBN
- 9781442649743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.37
€ 79.37
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century's two predominant approaches to the natural world in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Editor(s): McMurran, Mary Helen; Conway, Alison. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442650114
- ISBN
- 9781442650114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.82
€ 76.82
hardcover. This edition of E.J. Pratt's letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. The letters take us into his "workshop," illuminating the research behind his distinctive documentary long poems and the social nature of his creative production. Editor(s): Popham, Elizabeth A.; Pitt, David G. Series: Collected Works of E.J.Pratt. Num Pages: 792 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 3JJ; ACX; BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1190.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 792
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442650237
- ISBN
- 9781442650237
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.87
€ 142.87
Paperback. 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: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 286 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487521394
- ISBN
- 9781487521394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.71
€ 31.99
€ 28.71