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Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Literary Theory - Approaches, Scholars, Terms

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 Accessible and jargon-free, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory provides lucid, concise explanations of myriad approaches to literature that have arisen over the past forty years.
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Foregrounded Description In Prose Fiction - Five Cross-Literary Studies

by Jose M. Lopes

34,44€ + 10% CARD

 In this wide-ranging study, José Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures—French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian—testing his model across a cultural and temporal spectrum. This critical breadth also illustrates the significance of description in disparate contexts: the postmodern novel, which implicitly challenges conventional notions of foreground and background, as well as the naturalist and realist fiction of the nineteenth century.Lopes applies his model to detailed readings of Emile Zola's Une Page d'amour, Claude Simon's Histoire, Benito Pérez Galdós' La de Bringas, Cornélio Penna's A Menina Morta, and Carlos de Oliveira's Finisterra. In addition to exploring the interplay of description and narration, these readings pay particular attention to spatial descriptions, and analyse the diverse roles of description in different contexts. After subjecting each fictional text to a detailed analysis which seeks to bring out the crucial aspects that contribute towards the foregrounding of descriptive passages (e.g., mise en abyme, parody, modes of representation), and which establishes, on occasion, certain relations that literary description may entertain with the other arts, he attempts to isolate the primary functions of foregrounding descriptions. What he seeks to demonstrate is that description constitutes a major textual component necessary for the analysis and understanding of both nineteenth- and twentieth-century fictional texts.
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Worrying The Nation - Imagining A National Literature In English Canada

by Jonathan Kertzer

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 A sophisticated analysis of Canadian literary writing and its role in national culture that 'worries' over the possibility of a national literature when the very idea of the nation as a viable conceptual/literary category has been called into question.
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Voices Of Fire - Art, Rage, Power, And The State

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 On 7 March 1990 the National Gallery of Canada issued a press release announcing its purchase of a large abstract painting by the American artist Barnett Newman for $1.8 million. Within 72 hours the gallery was under attack both for its selection of Voice of Fire and for the price tag attached to it. Objections came from across Canada and from all quarters.The Voice of Fire controversy was the most extensive and heated debate over visual art ever to have taken place in Canada. This anthology can be seen as a case-study, providing both a historical account of the outcome of the National Gallery''s purchase of the painting and an understanding of why the gallery''s actions provoked such strong opinions and feelings. In this volume the editors also address the peculiar and paradoxical character of abstract art in general and the problems it consistently poses for viewers. Newman''s work is presented as the focus of these concerns.The attack on the gallery by the press, the general public, Canadian artists, and politicians is documented in the first section by a broad selection of cartoons satirizing the painting, press photographs, news releases, editorials, letters to the editor, and public exchanges. In the second section three essays offer contrasting accounts of the controversy and its significance. The first considers the social processes by which art becomes art, the second focuses on the role of the media in shaping public opinion about art, and the third compares the reception of Voice of Fire in two distinctive frameworks, first at Expo ''67 in Montreal and then in Ottawa in 1990. In the final part four papers given at a symposium on Voice of Fire organized by the gallery in October 1990 (a combined effort at damage control and art criticism) are presented, as well as a transcription of the public dialogue between speakers and audience which followed.
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Unsex'D Revolutionaries - Five Women Novelists Of The 1790''S

by Eleanor Ty

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 Using historical and feminist psycho-linguistic studies as a base, Ty explores some of the complexities encountered in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Smith
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Touch Monkeys - Nonsense Strategies For Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry

by Marnie Parsons

76,85€ + 10% CARD

 Parsons distinguishes between nonsense language and Nonsense, the genre. Using Carroll and Lear as examples of Nonsense, she provides a survey of existing Nonsense criticism in English, and then extends and elaborates nonsense in theoretical directions set by Deleuze and Kristeva, among others, and
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Mcluhan, Or Modernism In Reverse

by Glenn Willmott

88,78€ + 10% CARD

 McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse thus aims to retrace and synthesize McLuhan's work in order to illuminate his unexpected meaning and value for critical practice today.
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Masculine Migrations - Reading The Postcolonial Male In New Canadian Narratives

by Daniel Coleman

64,93€ + 10% CARD

 Examines the representation of masculinities in the work of some of Canadaâ€™s most exciting writers, including Michael Ondaatje, and Rohinton Mistry, to show how cross-cultural migration disrupts assumed codes for masculine behaviour and practice.
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The Hermeneutics Of Poetic Sense

by Mario Valdes

74,20€ + 10% CARD

 ValdÃ©s gives his views of literature, cinema, and art to unravel what he calls, 'the imaginative configuration of the world, the cultural phenomenon of making sense, poetic sense, of life.'
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Fictions Of Discourse - Reading Narrative Theory

by Patrick O'Neill

50,35€ + 10% CARD

 O'Neill investigates the extent to which narrative discourse subverts the story it tells in foregrounding its own performance.
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Essays On Life Writing - From Genre To Critical Practice

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 Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.
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Body Language In Literature

by Barbara Korte

88,78€ + 10% CARD

 An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language.
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Acts Of Narrative - Textual Strategies In Modern German Fiction

by Patrick O'Neill

74,20€ + 10% CARD

 Oâ€™Neill applies the principles of structuralist and poststructuralist narratology to a selection of narratives from both modernist and postmodernist German authors: Mann, Kafka, and Hesse, and Canetti, Grass, Johnson, Handke, and Bernhard.
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Foregrounded Description In Prose Fiction - Five Cross-Literary Studies

by José Lopes

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 In this wide-ranging study, José Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures—French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian—testing his model across a cultural and temporal spectrum. This critical breadth also illustrates the significance of description in disparate contexts: the postmodern novel, which implicitly challenges conventional notions of foreground and background, as well as the naturalist and realist fiction of the nineteenth century.Lopes applies his model to detailed readings of Emile Zola's Une Page d'amour, Claude Simon's Histoire, Benito Pérez Galdós' La de Bringas, Cornélio Penna's A Menina Morta, and Carlos de Oliveira's Finisterra. In addition to exploring the interplay of description and narration, these readings pay particular attention to spatial descriptions, and analyse the diverse roles of description in different contexts. After subjecting each fictional text to a detailed analysis which seeks to bring out the crucial aspects that contribute towards the foregrounding of descriptive passages (e.g., mise en abyme, parody, modes of representation), and which establishes, on occasion, certain relations that literary description may entertain with the other arts, he attempts to isolate the primary functions of foregrounding descriptions. What he seeks to demonstrate is that description constitutes a major textual component necessary for the analysis and understanding of both nineteenth- and twentieth-century fictional texts.
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Design With Type

by Carl Dair

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 Takes the reader through a study of typography that starts with the individual letter and proceeds through the word, the line, and the mass of text along with their application to the typography of books, advertising, magazines, and information data.
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Fiction Updated - Theories Of Fictionality In Contemporary Criticism

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Feast

by Tom Darby

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 This paperback edition contains a new preface by the author.
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Wild Things - Nature, Culture And Tourism In Ontario, 1790-1914

by Patricia Jasen

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 The first book to explore the cultural foundations of tourism in Ontario, Wild Things also makes a major contribution to the literature on the wilderness ideal in North America.
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Victorian Periodicals And Victorian Society

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 Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society, originally published in 1994, has become an indispensable reference work for all Victorian scholars. University of Toronto Press is pleased to make this important book available to all students and researchers in an affordable paperback edition.
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New Romanticisms

by David L. Clark

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 Designed to provide an indication of the different directions that Romantic studies are currently headed in, beyond the totalizing opposition which could see deconstruction secede to historicism, New Romanticisms emphasizes the plurality of critical positions available to the contemporary scholar.
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Bibliography Of Canadian Bibliographies

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 Completely revised and updated with over 7300 entries - a standard Canadian reference work.
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Collected Works Of Erasmus - Annotations On Romans, Volume 56

by Desiderius Erasmus

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 This translation reveals the annotations as a rich storehouse of methodological discussion and semantic analysis, and a fascinating witness to the theological debates of the early sixteenth century.
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Mapping Upper Canada, 1780-1867 - An Annotated Bibliography Of Manuscript And Printed Maps

by Joan Winearls

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 Appendices examine township surveys; registered plans of urban subdivisions, this describing much of the evolution of towns; nautical charts of the Great Lakes; and boundary surveys. The bibliography is fully indexed by author, place, and subject.
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Unsex'D Revolutionaries - Five Women Novelists Of The 1790'S

by Eleanor Ty

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 Using historical and feminist psycho-linguistic studies as a base, Ty explores some of the complexities encountered in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Smith
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