A prolific member of the Tuscan verismo school of literary realism, Mario Pratesi (1842-1921) was much respected during his career but sadly neglected after his death. Using Pratesi's personal archive, now preserved at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, Reviewing Mario Pratesi takes Pratesi's life and papers as the basis of a unique study of the literary culture of post-Unification Italy.
Working with the original manuscripts, alongside previously unknown biographical materials and a vast collection of contemporary reviews, Anne Urbancic uses the methods...
A prolific member of the Tuscan verismo school of literary realism, Mario Pratesi (1842-1921) was much respected during his career but sad...
Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.
From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian literature, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, and Al Purdy, captured in Toppings' interviews and readings, give intimate and compelling views of their developing prose and poetry, in their own words.
The Earle Toppings tapes provide a distinctive and special glimpse...
Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.
