The essential Laurie Lee, a collection of occasional writings full of his unique vision and irresistible charm All of the wit and wisdom and poetry that made Laurie Lee one of the most celebrated English writers of the twentieth century can be found in this compilation of "e;first loves and obsessions.
The definitive survey of Alistair Cooke's brilliant career as a newspapermanFew journalists have covered the American scene as thoroughly as Alistair Cooke did.
Masterful essays by one of the most distinctive voices in broadcast journalismIn his Letter from America reports for the BBC and as the host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, Alistair Cooke addressed millions of people all over the world every week.
An indispensable collection of essays reflecting on the historical and cultural relevance of feminist movements across the globe In these remarkably far-reaching writings, author and journalist Valerie Miner delivers a complex and engaging volume of essential reading.
Mapping the fault lines between mother and child (humanity's first and supposedly strongest bond), and with a poet's homeric vision of her native Trinidad, Camille U.
The period during which Bernard Lonergan delivered the eleven lectures in this volume was one of important transition for him: he was moving rapidly toward a new conception of theology and its method; and he was on the verge of what is now recognized as a major breakthrough in his thought on method, the idea that came to him in February 1965 of the eight functional specialities.
This is the third publication to come from the Editorial Problems Conference held at the University of Toronto (the first two were Editing Sixteenth-Century Texts, edited by R.
Early in 1965 a group of scholars in the University of Toronto conceived the idea of a continuing conference on editorial problems at which scholars actively at work upon editorial tasks could come together for a free discussion of their work, learning from each other's experience, pooling their common intellectual resources, and seeking out expert opinion and counsel.
This collection of studies in Italian literature is a tribute to Professor Corrigan on her retirement from active teaching at the University of Toronto.
This collection of previously unpublished essays written by leading scholars in the field of American literature was commissioned by the Department of English at Carleton University to celebrate the establishment of the programmie in American literature.
In this highly original and provocative contribution to Diderot scholarship, Professor O'Gorman analyses Diderot's three satirical works: Le Neveu de Rameau, Satire premiere, and Lui et Moi.
This fifth volume continues the dialogue between the present and the past begun in 1957 in this series of public lectures sponsored by the Institute of Canadian Studies of Carleton University.
As Timothy McGee says in his introduction, 'It is not an exaggeration to say that John Beckwith has been the single most important influence on Canadian music over the past forty years.
The noted scholar and critic George Steiner has called the Czech-Canadian author Josef Skvorecky 'one of the major literary figures of our time,' yet to date few books on him and his writing have appeared in English.
This is the second volume in a series which has been founded by the Faculty of Law in the University of Western Ontario as a forum for presentation of research in law and related social sciences.
This volume brings together five papers read at the University of Western Ontario in 1971 to mark the tercentenary of the publication of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes.
Professor Leech examines here the changing nature of Shakespeare's comic art, from its early forms in such plays as The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, where delight predominates, to later developments in Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale, where elements of the playwright's tragic vision intrude to prevent the effect from being wholly comic.
The essays in this book, by English, American and Canadian scholars, constitute a spectrum of some of the most influential kinds of scholarship and criticism in contemporary English studies.
Marston LaFrance (1927-75) was a stoic for most of his life, although the basic humanitas of the man softened what otherwise might have been mere grim endurance.
The essays in this volume have as their centre the Ancient Near East, the special field of interest of the distinguished scholar of the University of Toronto whom they honour.
The first Banff Conference on Theoretical Psychology, which led to the establishment of the University of Alberta's Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, was held 9-12 April 1965, at the university's mountain retreat in the Canadian Rockies.
Although the more superficial features of the Latin-American countries are becoming better known to North Americans as a result of improved travel facilities, their cultural and economic problems still remain largely unappreciated.
"e;I am talking about Milton because I enjoy talking about Milton,"e; This statement made by Northrop Frye at the beginning of The Return of Eden sets the tone for the entire book.
