Peter Lang: 4879 books
by Mariaconcetta Costantini
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book explores the extent to which four sensation novelists responded to the Victorian theorizing of professionalism. A crucial period of redefinition of the professional ideal, the third quarter of the nineteenth century also witnessed the rise and the decline of the sensation novel, a scandalous...
Poland and Polin
New Interpretations in Polish-Jewish Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The contributions in this volume reflect discussions and controversies during the Princeton University Conference on Polish-Jewish Studies (April 18–19, 2015). The debates examined the politics of history in Poland, as well as the scholarly and pedagogical need to move beyond national and diasporic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific,...
inklings Jahrbuch fuer Literatur und Aesthetik
Die Inklings und der Erste Weltkrieg Symposium 17. und 18. September in Aachen
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
«Inklings» nannte sich eine Gruppe von Schriftstellern und Geisteswissenschaftlern in Oxford, deren bekannteste Mitglieder J.R.R. Tolkien und C.S. Lewis waren. Die Inklings-Gesellschaft e.V. widmet sich seit 1983 dem Studium und der Verbreitung der Werke dieser und ihnen nahestehender Autoren sowie...
Camilo José Cela y su novelística: de «Pascual Duarte» a «Madera de boj»
Catorce pasos hacia la modernización de la novela
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Este libro trata del proceso escritural y evolutivo de la obra narrativa de Camilo José Cela desde la «Familia de Pascual Duarte» hasta su último libro novelístico: «Madera de boj». El autor muestra como Cela en sus catorce obras, clasificadas como «novela», logra realizar un proceso creativo...
Expanding the Gothic Canon
Studies in Literature, Film and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This volume offers a survey of analyses of Gothic texts, including literary works, feature films, a TV serial, and video games, with a view to showing the evolution and expansion of the Gothic convention across the ages and the media. The temporal scope of the book is broad: the chapters cover narratives...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book focuses on Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, philosopher and controversial artist. It expresses the opinions of philosophers, museologists and artists, for whom Stanisław Ignacy Witkacy’s 130th birthday anniversary became an opportunity to view his works from the perspective of postmodernity....
Iconic Sports Venues
Persuasion in Public Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
From the Colosseum of Rome to Wrigley Field and Madison Square Garden, iconic sports venues are larger than life. They often exist in a seemingly "sacred" space, outside the hustle and bustle of the everyday. At their most basic level, iconic sports venues are revered and idolized. They emanate a...
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established...
by Pablo Devís Márquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Aborda este trabajo el estudio de las denominadas comparativas de desigualdad cuya coda se encuentra introducida por la preposición «de» en español actual. La vinculación que muchos han establecido entre estas construcciones y la llamada pseudocomparación exige posicionarse con respecto a este...
'Inspiring a Mysterious Terror'
200 Years of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, journalism and a verse-drama. While...
Family and Kinship in the United States
Cultural Perspectives on Familial Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
The volume takes a close look at the forms and functions of family and kinship in cultural narratives in the United States. It analyzes social and cultural contexts of kinship and family membership, relations of family and nation on a metaphorical level, and the political discourses that regulate...
Writers and Artists in Dialogue
Historical Fiction about Women Painters
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This unique work of scholarship explores contemporary issues of male spectatorship and the importance of biography for art criticism in the work of Tracy Chevalier, Eunice Lipton, Anna Banti, Kate Braverman, and Susan Vreeland. Drawing upon feminist concepts on the male and female gaze, Dr. Cortney...
Biological Discourses
The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebrations of 2009 added to this tradition, inspiring a variety of new publications on the cultural reception...