Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
The State of Welfare
Comparative Studies of the Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 19651980
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The period after 1945 saw a rapid growth in social welfare, with the state taking on increasing responsibility for pensions, health care, unemployment relief and income support. In Western democracies economic growth underpinned state investment and was reinforced by demands from the new social movements...
Showcase Britain
Britain at the Vienna World Exhibition 1873
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Showcase Britain explores the diverse aspects of British participation in the Vienna World Exhibition (Weltausstellung) of 1873. The exhibition covered a vast spectrum of human endeavour and achievement. The British involvement encompassed not only the national submission but also the British individuals...
Facing Poverty and Marginalization
Fifty Years of Critical Research in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
A long history of poverty, discrimination, colonialism and struggle for social justice has provided, over the last fifty years, the context for the development of a vast amount of critical scholarship targeting marginalization in Brazil: Freireian pedagogics, theology of liberation, critical sociology,...
Translation, Globalization and Younger Audiences
The Situation in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Translating for younger audiences is in need of critical investigation, as children’s and teenagers’ literature and media products are being increasingly globalized and glocalized, with translation playing an important role in the process. Media phenomena such as Harry Potter and animated Disney...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage presents articles on the theories of translation and adaptation, new insights on the work of Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Thomas Kilroy, and Tom Murphy, historical analyses of theatrical productions during the Irish Revival, interviews with contemporary theatre...
This Favoured Land
Edward King-Tenison and Lady Louisa in Spain, 18501853
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
In the wake of the Irish potato famine, Edward King-Tenison, a sometime Irish politician of the liberal order and one of the first masterful photographers of Spain, and his wife, Lady Louisa Mary Anne Anson, the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, left their estate of Kilronan in County...
Zooming In
Micro-Scale Perspectives on Cognition, Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This book explores the influence of culture and cognition on translation and communication and brings together revised versions of papers delivered at the First International TransLingua Conference, organized in 2015 by the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Department of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
The present study examines the interrelation between literary texts, their successive retranslations and the corresponding historical, social and cultural backgrounds that inform these versions. In the case of each text, the authors analyse both the external factors (sociohistorical circumstances,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
An important question concerning literary studies is the circulation of literary works beyond their place of origin. Many other aspects must also be taken into consideration, such as the asymmetric positioning of authors and their work in international circulation, which is conditioned by the relative...
The Wrong Ally
Pakistans State Sovereignty Under US Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The Wrong Ally analyses Pakistan’s state sovereignty in the context of state dependence on the US, both during the Cold War era and the War on Terror. This examination becomes all the more important considering that recent contentious issues between Pakistan and the US, such as the US drone strikes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
This edited collection of essays aims to acquaint the reader with different aspects and readings of Hegel’s Early Theological Writings. These writings consist of five essays plus some unfinished manuscripts, unpublished by Hegel himself during his lifetime and compiled by Herman Nohl as Hegels Theologische...
Falling for Gravity
Invisible Forces in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book begins with the observation that contemporary artists have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade. Necessarily focusing on material practices – chiefly sculpture, installation, performance, and film – this discussion takes account of how and why artists have used gravity...
Aristotle on the Meaning of Man
A Philosophical Response to Idealism, Positivism, and Gnosticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Why was (and is) Aristotle «right» and why are we «wrong»? In other words, why are Aristotle’s philosophical reflections on man and the world full, real, and convincing and why is so much of our modern philosophy partial and false? This work offers a detailed assessment of Aristotle’s thought...
They Bear Acquaintance
African American Spirituals and the Camp Meetings
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Identifying the roots of African American spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since this genre came to the public eye in 1867. The conversation on origins has waned and waxed for over eighty years, sometimes polemical, sometimes compromising....