Peter Lang: 4879 books
Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs
Swedish Funerary Poetry for Animals 16701760
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
When Kersti Berg died in 1735, she was honoured with an obituary in the form of a poetic epitaph composed by Olof von Dalin. A modern-day reader can easily get the impression that Dalin’s poem is an example of a funerary poem for a human being – one of the eighteenth century’s most common poetic...
by Monika Ozóg
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This book discusses Theoderic the Great’s years of political activity, which coincided with the advent of a new era and were marked by features of two distinct civilizations. From the political and cultural viewpoint, he stood at the boundary between the Roman tradition and his Germanic origin....
Henry Totting of Oyta: Three Sermons of a Late Medieval Intellectual
De passione Domini - De assumpcione beate Virginis Marie - De nativitate Iohannis Baptiste
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The book presents Henry Totting of Oyta (d. 1397), a late medieval intellectual who was active in Erfurt, Prague, Paris, and Vienna. In spite of the fact that he is a well-known figure, the majority of his works remain unedited in manuscripts. The authors analyse and provide the first editions of...
A Curriculum of Wellness
Reconceptualizing Physical Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
A Curriculum of Wellness seeks to encourage a deeper discussion about teaching our children how to be healthy and live well. It makes a significant contribution to the field of education as it features influential curriculum concepts nuanced with action research principles in a unified, intimate,...
A History of Political Trials
From Charles I to Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The modern use of international tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and crimes against humanity is often considered a positive development. Many people think that the establishment of special courts to prosecute notorious dictators represents a triumph of law over impunity. In A History of...
Le Sens en mouvement
Études de sémantique interprétative
Language: French
Release Date: August 14, 2015
La sémantique contemporaine est traversée par un paradoxe rarement posé en l’état : si une majorité des linguistes ont admis avec Saussure (au moins depuis la publication des Écrits de linguistique générale) que toute appréhension du langage est tributaire d’un point de vue, ces mêmes...
An Artist as Soldier
Seeking Refuge in Love and Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
At the center of this book are the World War II letters (Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife. While Bernhard Epple’s letters to his wife, Gudrun, address many of the topics usually found in war letters (food, lodging conditions, the weather, problems with the mail service,...
Sienkiewiczs Bodies
Studies of Gender and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Sienkiewicz’s Bodies focuses on the work of the most popular Polish writer from the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. It discusses the surprising success of Sienkiewicz’s writing in relation to the dissection of optimistic illusion that takes place during a reading...
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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...
A Late Middle English Remedy-book (MS Wellcome 542, ff. 1r-20v)
A Scholarly Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, housing a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedy-book based on the medical lore of Hippocrates, Socrates and Galen. A glossary, notes and introduction also accompany the edition. The introduction has been conceived as...
«The Jewish Press» A Gevalt from the Torah True
An Examination of the Concepts Holocaust and Israel in the American Jewish Newspaper «The Jewish Press»
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The Jewish Press’ purpose is to promote Jewish Orthodoxy. The book explores this popular American Jewish newspaper and more precisely the development of the paper’s ideology over a period of forty years offering a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy must be understood as a...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Qu’elle soit appelée meurtrière, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide élude les catégories usuelles : elle dérange l’ordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquiète les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (français et anglais)...
Postkoloniale Positionen?
Die Biennale DAKART im Kontext des internationalen Kunstbetriebs
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Das Buch ist ein aktueller Beitrag zur Debatte um postkoloniale Perspektiven in der Kunstwissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die DAK’ART-Biennale, an der sich ein gängiges identitätspolitisches Dilemma zeigt: Künstlerinnen und Künstler vom afrikanischen Kontinent müssen oft nicht nur «zeitgenössisch»,...
New Perspectives on Irish TV Series
Identity and Nostalgia on the Small Screen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Within the growing field of television studies, little work has yet been done on the Irish context. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering new and compelling studies of contemporary Irish TV series. Fictional TV series, which constitute an autonomous genre within the broader cultural phenomenon...