Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
Subtitling African American English into French
Can We Do the Right Thing?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
In Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, African American character Mookie throws a rubbish bin through the window of the pizzeria he works for, which is owned by an Italian American family. Translators often find themselves in a position of moral ambiguity similar to that of Mookie: at the nexus between...
InHabit
People, Places and Possessions
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perspectives on human habitation in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, social history, material culture, literature, art and design, and architecture. Significant...
Vulnerable Futures, Transformative Pasts
On Vulnerability, Temporality, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Vulnerability reins our time. People know that their world is changing in ways that they cannot foresee. Communities disintegrate and boundaries lose their relevance. Drawing on the concept of vulnerability as an affective relation individuals hold with their world and with their lives, this book...
by Pablo Kirtchuk
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language requires investigation within a broad framework, which can only be achieved if the elements studied belong to all realms of verbal (and to some extent non-verbal) communication. Grammar is merely the systematized aspect of language: by drawing on data from oral communication in a number of...
Battleground Bodies
Gender and Sexuality in Mozambican Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This is the first book to provide a comparative exploration of the gendered and sexual body in Mozambican literature, engaging with the work of six authors spanning different generations, styles and aesthetics. The study begins by providing a detailed and innovative survey of the dynamics of gender,...
Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager
Narratives from the Field(s)
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In 2003, Wendy Luttrell posed an important question: what might result if we were able to turn questions of judgement about pregnant and parenting teenagers into questions of interest about their sense of self and identity-making? This book takes up the challenge, offering a re/assemblage of what...
Masculinities in American Western Films
A Hyper-Linear History
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The «Western» embodies many of the stereotypes of masculinity: rugged, independent men in cowboy hats roam the barren landscapes of the American West, resolving conflicts with guns and tough talk. Where did these cowboys come from? What historical trends led to their emergence on screen?
This...
Slight Return
Paul Muldoons Poetics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex exchanges between language and...
Emergency Noises
Sound Art and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual. Sound has either been ignored or has been appreciated in a highly selective manner within a different discipline: music. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the senses....
Semantics for Translation Students
ArabicEnglishArabic
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This book is an introduction to semantics for students and researchers who are new to the field, especially those interested in Arabic–English translation and Arabic–English contrastive studies. The book first presents key concepts in semantics, pragmatics, semiotics, syntax and morphology and...
Landscapes of Memory
Trauma, Space, History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Since Auschwitz, and more and more frequently today, places that were theatres of mass suffering and other atrocities are becoming common features of our cultural landscape. What should we do with these places? Keep them as they were, to remind us of what actually took place there, as ideal museums...
Un Irlandais à Paris
John Patrick Leonard, au cœur des relations franco-irlandaises (18141889)
Language: French
Release Date: April 27, 2017
À travers la biographie de John Patrick Leonard transparaît une histoire des relations franco-irlandaises au XIXe siècle. Professeur d’anglais dans un collège parisien, il mène une vie honorable et conforme aux normes de la société française. Il utilise habilement les réseaux qu’il s’est...
by Robert Butterworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The trials Anne Brontë experienced in her lifetime left her with a deep interest in the psychology of suffering. This study, which considers both her novels and her poetry, focuses on the exploration of suffering in her work by examining her anatomisation of the trials her characters face and the...
Sculpting the Woman
Muscularity, Power and the Problem with Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What is femininity?
Why does the idea of femininity not seem to «fit» with muscular women?
Why are muscular women the object of such controversy and skepticism?
Why do some women build muscle despite these strong cultural reactions?
Muscular women have long been the focus...