Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a pioneer in the way he charmed his young readers with an innovative and engaging aesthetic approach to the pict...

A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (a...

The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centre...

This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasma...

"I am a writer because I was a reader first." Alison Gordon. "Nobody has ever written who never read." Mavis Gallant. ".reading is a connection, at...

From one of Canada's foremost poet/novelists and feminist critics—a collection of essays spanning over fifteen years.

This study provides a critical survey of views on reality and truth in the realm of philosophy and literary theory. Its aim is to show how importan...

Barry Hill is a multi-award winning writer of poetry, essays, biography, history, criticism, novels, short stories, libretti and reportage. His maj...

Unlike most texts in critical thinking, Reason in the Balance focuses broadly on the practice of critical inquiry, the process of carefully examini...

This volume is meant to be a retrospective look at the field of Comparative Literature as it has developed in the past two decades, as well as a re...

ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WW...

Plutarch's Lives of great Greek and Roman public figures are among the central texts of European culture. Like most Greek authors Plutarch had been...

Recognition and Ethics in World Literature is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focused on the importance of the ethic...

Anagnorisis, or recognition, has played a central role in the arts and humanities throughout history. It is a universal mode of knowledge in litera...

"Scholars who know classical Chinese have been reading and citing Hon Mai's wonderful collection for many years. Now students can access these info...

"Scholars who know classical Chinese have been reading and citing Hon Mai's wonderful collection for many years. Now students can access these info...

The saga of the Three Kingdoms—which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180--220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, ...

The saga of the Three Kingdoms—which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180--220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, ...

Alice Corbin (1881-1949) was part of an inner circle of writers and artists on the national scene in the early twentieth century. Corbin lived and ...

Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Cana...