Peter Lang: 4879 books
by Michal Glowinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Totalitarian Speech brings together a range of texts on totalitarian manipulations of language. The author analyzes various phenomena, from the hateful rhetoric of Nazi Germany to the obfuscating newspeak of communist Poland, finding certain common characteristics. Above all, totalitarian speech in...
Navigating Maritime Languages and Narratives
New Perspectives in English and French
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. It focuses on the linguistic, literary and cultural exploration of the sea, considering new directions for research in the vast domain of «thalassology». Structured into two sections,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different literary concerns and discusses...
Visions and Revisions
Studies in Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Collected under the theme of Visions and Revisions, the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. The first part gathers articles dealing with poetry of such epochs as the seventeenth century, the Victorian era and the modern times....
Consuming Irish Children
Advertising and the Art of Independence, 18601921
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
As far as Irish history is concerned, consuming Irish children was not only a matter for Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Late nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a thriving home-grown advertising industry, and the Irish child played a pivotal role in developing a nascent consumer...
Cross-Cultural Affinities
Emersonian Transcendentalism and Senghorian Negritude
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The book, through textual analyses, brings concepts of Senghorian Negritude and Emersonian ideas into a cross-cultural dialogue, and thus opens up a completely new perspective in research on the history of ideas. It synthesizes the diverse cultural, literary, philosophical and religious trends which...
Memories of the Future
On Countervision
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future: On Countervision addresses these concerns by speculating...
by Mohamed Saliou Camara
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Political History of Guinea since World War Two provides an in-depth study of the political evolution of Guinea from World War Two to the present. Based on primary-source information, it examines with rare depth and breadth the eventful history of this nation-state, whose trajectory has impacted in...
History and Fiction
Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores the nature of the author’s...
Literature and Error
A Literary Take on Mistakes and Errors
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Literature and Error comprises a series of essays by French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a theory that would argue for the productivity of errors and mistakes in literary works. While the "necessity of errors" has repeatedly been tackled from a philosophical angle, rarely...
Dreams, Hallucinations, Dragons, the Unconscious, and Ekphrasis in German Romanticism
Ludwig Tieck's Skillful Study of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
When reading Ludwig Tieck’s texts, the reader becomes aware that dreams, the unconscious, and art play a key role. This study posits that Ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into the verbal in order to gain a...
Their Childhood and the Holocaust
A Childs Perspective in Polish Documentary and Autobiographical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Children have a specific perception of the Holocaust: it did not destroy their earlier world view, but became the field of first experiences. This book focuses on the traumatic dimension of the Holocaust and how it is expressed (or left unexpressed) in children’s diaries. «Here and Now» under...
by Magdalena Barbaruk
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
The author traces the resurgence of Don Quixote in the contemporary humanities. In the aftermath of World War II, the figure underwent the most radical re-interpretation since Romanticism. These changes speak volumes about our culture. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the specifically Polish...
«My Name is Freida Sima»
The American-Jewish Womens Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New...