Peter Lang: 4879 books
Reading Voices
Five Studies in Theocritus Narrating Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book is a study of Theocritus’ narrating techniques, intertextual practices, and the relationship between them. By a close, careful description and analysis of these features as particularly deployed in Idylls 6, 11, 13, 24, and 15, J. Andrew Foster provides detailed readings of these specific...
Literary Tourism
The Case of Norman Mailer Mailers Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Most of Norman Mailer’s works depict the reality of the United States of America and the complexities of the contemporary American social, political and economic scenes. They also contributed to the development of literary tourism. This monograph reveals Mailer’s literary places and points out...
Balzacs Cane
Translated with an Introduction by Marta L. Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Balzac’s Cane is an English translation of Delphine de Girardin’s 1836 novella, La Canne de M. de Balzac, which centers around a protagonist named Tancred Dorimont, a brilliant young man plagued by his devastating good looks. In a social context in which appearance is everything, it seems for...
Playing with Expectations
Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. This book examines novels...
The History of Medieval Philosophy
Selected Figures of Scholastic Tradition I
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Calling an epoch Middle Age already involves some sort of judgment. But Middle Ages represent a historic period, in which the identity was established, which was denied by the renaissance, modern world and which however is now being discovered again in its sense and beauty. It is a period in which...
The Science and Religion Dialogue
Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
This book documents the conference on The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future, held at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, October 25-29, 2012. The conference commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Templeton and the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the John...
by Jan Tomasz Gross
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations during the war. The author is a founding father of a new approach...
À la carte
Le roman québécois (20102015)
Language: French
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Le troisième volume de notre série « À la carte » propose de nouveau une radiographie du roman qui s'écrit actuellement en français au Québéc afin de capter le pouls de sa littérature au sein de l'espace francophone canadien, américain, voire européen. Quels sont les sujets, les rêves,...
Embracing Democracy
Hermann Broch, Politics and Exile, 1918 to 1951
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Hermann Broch wrote two of the most significant novels of German modernism, The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, which established his importance to German literature. His writings on democracy, mass delusion and internationalism are more obscure. Embracing Democracy examines the central political,...
by Crispin Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a screen, we touch either the screen or a keyboard in response to what we see and, somehow, an element...
«All Men and Women Are Created Equal»
Elizabeth Cady Stantons and Susan B. Anthonys Proverbial Rhetoric Promoting Womens Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Even a cursory glance at the letters, speeches, and essays of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) reveals that these two nineteenth-century feminists relied on Biblical and folk proverbs to make their relentless case for the equality of men and women before the...
A Liberation Ecclesiology?
The Quest for Authentic Freedom in Joseph Ratzingers Theology of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Freedom, one of the most potent ideals of the post-Enlightenment era, came to remarkable prominence in ecclesiology through the emergence of liberation theologies in the twentieth century. At the same time, Joseph Ratzinger – a German university professor – was appointed a bishop of the Roman...
The Divine-Human Communion
An Outline of Catholic Integral Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
This book contains a methodological fundamental-dogmatic study, which frames a comprehensive overview of the Church in the light of reason and faith. The understanding of the Church in the history of Christianity was – and still is – a subject of numerous misunderstandings, either among the believers...
Authority and Wisdom in the New Ireland
Studies in Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Since the end of the nineteenth century, Ireland has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of its cultural, political, constitutional and religious identities, resulting in an unparalleled questioning of the dominant discourses and narratives that have seemingly defined the nation. The essays in this...