Peter Lang: 4879 books
by Enrique Sánchez-Costa
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
From 1890 to 1945, Europe was shaken by political, social, and cultural revolutions brought about by the crisis of modernity. Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud stoked the yearnings of a convulsed era, devastated by the First World War. It was a time when all kinds of alternative and radical models of modernity...
by Nelly G. Kupper
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This book examines the concept of the gaze in the context of narrative fiction. It argues that the gaze in fiction is a tractable factor, identifying the function of characters by way of the gender. The gaze variance and its connection to memory is not new to literary scholarship, but what has been...
Songbirds on the Literary Stage
The Woman Singer and her Song in French and German Prose Fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this diachronic history of motifs...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The book focuses on the category of character in fiction. It provides a general outline of different approaches to literary character followed by nineteen essays on individual authors from Conrad to Coetzee, on various genres from utopia, fantasy and gothic fiction to academic novel, and on characters’ extra-textual contexts from intertextuality to history and autobiography.
Crime Scenes
Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Crime Scenes: Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. The volume covers a wide spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of crime fiction studies....
Unbridling the Western Film Auteur
Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
According to Jim Kitses (1969), the Western originally offered American directors a rich canvas to express a singular authorial vision of the American past and its significance. The Western’s recognizable conventions and symbols, rich filmic heritage, and connections to pulp fiction created a widely...
Amazing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postmans Brave New World Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Neil Postman’s most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of television on public discourse in America, arguing that television’s bias towards entertaining content trivializes serious issues and undermines the basis of democratic culture....
Mediated Authenticity
How the Media Constructs Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
This book explores the paradox of mediated authenticity – the idea that our understanding of society is based on mediated representations of reality. Enli argues that mediated authenticity is established through negotiations between producers and audiences in what is coined the ‘authenticity contract’....
Academic Writing
Selected Topics in Writing an Academic Paper
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The textbook concentrates on selected topics and problematic aspects in preparing a cohesive and well-organised academic paper, such as: the relation between thinking and writing, establishing arguments, using logic and appropriate language in argumentative writing. The author considers writing as...
The Political Woman in Print
German Womens Writing 18451919
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This book analyses the depiction and function of politically active women in novels by six female authors from the margins of the democratic revolution of 1848 and the first German women’s movement: Louise Aston, Malwida von Meysenbug, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Fanny Lewald, Louise Otto-Peters,...
The United States as a Divided Nation
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing lines within U.S. society actually becoming too deep and too wide to bridge, with potentially grave consequences for American social, political as well as economic...
Speaking the Language of the Night
Aspects of the Gothic in Selected Contemporary Novels
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This study contributes to the emerging field of Global Gothic. It focuses on the survival and evolution of Gothic subgenres and tropes in selected contemporary novels, produced in geographies and histories far away from its Western cradle. Some Gothic features identified as universal such as the relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
«Academia in Fact and Fiction» comprises twenty-eight essays on the relationship(s) between the university and the practice of belles lettres. The collection includes studies of the teaching of fiction by university professors; the fit – or misfit – between the creative writer and the academy;...
Extremos
Visiones de lo extremo en literatura, historia, música, arte, cine y lingueística en España y Austria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2017
El siglo XX fue, según Eric Hobsbawm, la "época de los extremos": guerras, genocidios, opciones políticas extremas y la llegada al poder de regímenes autoritarios, la amenaza nuclear, la sobreexplotación de los recursos naturales, violencia, pobreza y hambrunas extremas de un lado,...