Peter Lang: 4879 books
Bills of Mortality
Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year to Tony Kushner’s...
Affinities
Essays in Honour of Professor Tadeusz Rachwał
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Affinities, a collection of essays dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Rachwał, a noted literary historian and cultural critic, pioneer of the present-day cultural studies in Poland, includes texts written by his friends, colleagues, and disciples. As it turns out, even though the topics discussed by...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies, The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World, Total Recall, The Secret Garden,...
Mapping Holistic Learning
An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Mapping Holistic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams introduces the concept of aesthetigrams. These are participant-produced visual maps of aesthetic engagement. The map-making strategy was originally developed by one of the authors, Boyd White, to assist him in understanding what his...
Moving Ideas
Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
What does it look and feel like to communicate, create, compose, comprehend, teach, and learn with our bodies? Reaching beyond existing scholarship on multimodality and literacies, Moving Ideas expands our capacity to understand the embodied dimensions of learning and stretches our repertoires for...
Alchemy of the Soul
An African-centered Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author’s life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experiences, was to start an African-centered school. The dream in the night ignited the journey that led to this book, which was to discover answers to critical...
by Susana Sampaio-Dias
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Reporting Human Rights provides a systematic examination of human rights news and reporting practices from inside the world of television news production.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, the book discusses the potential of journalism in contributing to human rights protection, awareness...
Bridging the Political and the Personal
Literary Translation in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book examines literary translation in contemporary China from two perspectives. The first is related to the social and political dimension of translation, which is concerned with the general context of translation, translation practices, literary norms as well as the structures that support them....
Modernist Translation
An Eastern European Perspective: Models, Semantics, Functions
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The last two decades witnessed an upsurge in Anglo-American studies of Modernism and its translation practices. The book revisits the notion of Modernist translation in the context of Eastern European (Polish and Russian) literatures. The framework of this study is informed by the cultural turn in...
Lovings the Strange Thing
Jungian Individuation in the Fairy Tales of Carmen Martín Gaite
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This groundbreaking volume argues that Carmen Martín Gaite and Carl Jung form an ideal combination. All the main features of the Jungian individuation process are present in the Spanish writer’s fairy tales: dreams, shadow figures, wise men and women, the Self, anima and animus. Martín Gaite has...
Medeas Chorus
Myth and Womens Poetry Since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Women’s mythic revision is a tradition at the heart of twentieth-century literature. Medea’s Chorus explores post-WWII women’s poetry that takes Greek mythology as its central topos. The book investigates five of the most influential poets writing in the twentieth century (H.D., Sylvia Plath,...
Ecozoic Spirituality
The Symphony of God, Humanity, and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book guides the reader to the emerging Ecozoic Era when humans will be present upon the Earth in a mutually enhancing manner. Indeed, this book calls for an Ecozoic spirituality that is timely and much needed. It also illustrates an important direction for theology and spirituality and for deep...
A Passion for Getting It Right
Essays and Appreciations in Honor of Michael J. Colacurcios 50 Years of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
For 50 years Michael J. Colacurcio has been a leader in the criticism of early and antebellum American literature. In The Province of Piety, New Essays on The Scarlet Letter, Doctrine and Difference, and Godly Letters, as well as editions and often-reprinted reviews and essays, Dr. Colacurcio has...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Within the past decades, Henry James has been seen going to the movies and to Paris, both far more likely destinations for him than battlefields of the modern world. Sending him off to war seems to be a preposterous idea, but the exaggeration inscribed in the title of the present volume is meant to...