Peter Lang: 4879 books
Henry David Thoreau Grasping the Community of the World
Translated by Jean Ward
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This study takes up Thoreau’s work as an early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships between the individual and society. Thus Adorno’s formulation of «a melancholy of science» finds its predecessor in Thoreau’s famous dictum from the early pages of Walden that we live...
From John of Apamea to Marks Gospel
Two Dialogues with Thomasios: A Hermeneutical Reading of Horáō, Blépō, and Theōréō
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
From John of Apamea to Mark’s Gospel: Two Dialogues with Thomasios: A Hermeneutical Reading of Horáō, Blépō, and Theōréō combines two theological fields of investigation. The first is related to the Patristic theology of Eastern Syrian Christianity and the second resides in the field of Biblical...
La rencontre avec lautre
Phénoménologie interculturelle dans lEurope contemporaine
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
La rencontre avec l’autre est le thème fédérateur de cet ouvrage atypique, issu d’une expérience didactique originale mise en place par des professeurs issus de différentes disciplines. Le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, en tant que territoire où tant d’immigrés se sont rencontrés et cohabitent...
by Bohumil Fort
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The author extensively details, analyses and compares key concepts and strategies of fictional worlds theory: a theory which has, over recent years, developed rather rapidly and is connected with leading scholars in the area of literary studies, such as Lubomír Doležel, Umberto Eco, Thomas Pavel,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various disciplines: history, sociology, psychology,...
by Piotr Sobolczyk
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents readings of well-known authors such as Witold Gombrowicz or of authors gaining international fame such as Miron Białoszewski, as well as essays on other important,...
Stage Histories
Post-War British Historical Drama
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it. The author shows how some of the central concerns of late twentieth-century...
The Point of Philosophy
An Introduction for the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The core questions of philosophy about the origin of the world and people, the distinction between good and evil, and the meaning of life – these questions keep us all busy. In this introduction to philosophy, these three questions lead our journey. You want to understand the world and man. Then...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This collection of papers is a gift for all the members of the Japan Society for Medieval English Studies, who worked abroad under the direction of British, European and American medievalists or greatly influenced by those scholars as guests of the Society. Six papers in this book tell parts of their...
Arthur Hugh Clough
The Poetry of a Questioning Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This study traces the poetic development of Arthur Hugh Clough through a methodological approach based on close readings of his most important works with separate chapters devoted to the three great poems of his maturity: The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus. Attention is...
Re-Inventing Traditions
On the Transmission of Artistic Patterns in Late Medieval Manuscript Illumination
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The volume comprises 16 papers given at the conference Re-Inventing Traditions held in Berlin in 2012. It negotiates the question of the transmission of artistic patterns in late medieval manuscript illumination. The model as such is often regarded as a mere working tool but recently the conditions...
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe
Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Since its inception, one of the distinguishing features of the project of European integration has been the overcoming of internal borders. This aim has had one of the most remarkable outcomes in the history of cross-border cooperation, resulting in the creation of territorial structures known as...
George Herbert and Post-phenomenology
A Gift for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This reading of George Herbert’s poetry takes advantage of contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and of language. The book presents George Herbert’s poetic sequence, The Temple, as the poet’s response to a call which originates in the Word made flesh and at the same...
Dickens on the Move
Travels and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
From today’s perspective, Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This serves as a starting point for a bicentenary conference held by the English Department of Leipzig University in October 2012. The contributions united in this volume cover...