Peter Lang: 4879 books
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
On the Verge of Nihilism
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L’esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical...
Forgotten Places
Critical Studies in Rural Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education critically investigates and informs the construction of the rural, rural identity and the understanding of the rural internationally. This book promotes and expands the notion of critical understandings of rural education, particularly in the areas...
Sweetwater
Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural south. At times heartbreaking, at times humorous, Sweetwater captures the artistry, strength, language and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in small-town...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it encourage? This collection features...
The Colombian Political Novel 19511987
A Critical Contribution
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their broader implications, such as...
Disrupted Idylls
Nature, Equality, and the Feminine in Sentimentalist Russian Womens Writing (Mariia Pospelova, Mariia Bolotnikova, and Anna Naumova) With translations by Emily Lygo
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18th- and early-19th-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to examine restrictions imposed on women. Women authors in particular...
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the World Wars
edited by Ondrej Sládek and Michael Heim
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. The avant-garde writers during this period broke down the barrier between the elite literary language and the vernacular...
GEISTESwissenschaften IdeenGESCHICHTE
Festschrift fuer Helmut Reinalter zum 70. Geburtstag
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Theorien der Geisteswissenschaften und Ideengeschichte definieren zentrale Momente des gelehrten Lebenswerks von Helmut Reinalter, dessen leitendes wissenschaftliches Motiv in der konsequenten Vernetzung rigoroser fachbasierter Forschung mit transdisziplinären Perspektivierungen und geistesgeschichtlichen...
Views of Albion
The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe, 18901918
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more significant than the influence of Paris....
The Physiognomical Discourse and European Theatre
Theory, Performance, Dramatic Text
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the concept that Physiognomy refers...
Ye whom the charms of grammar please
Studies in English Language History in Honour of Leiv Egil Breivik
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historical linguistics. Core topics covered include the development of existential there and related phenomena, word order, the evolution of adverbials, null...
In Defence of Christianity
Early Christian Apologists
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of their argumentation. The nine articles...
La traducción del orden natural al ámbito humano
El pensamiento político de Tommaso Campanella
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 27, 2014
En este libro se lleva a cabo un estudio de la entera trayectoria de Tommaso Campanella como pensador político. Frente a la tradicional polarización de la crítica especializada, se emplea un enfoque dirigido a poner de manifiesto el núcleo conceptual común a todos sus escritos y a dar detallada...
A Study of Hypertexts of «Kuunmong» 九雲夢, Focusing on «Kuullu» 九雲 / «Kuungi» 九雲
Nine Clouds in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This case study deals with late Chosŏn dynasty works of narrative fiction modelled after Kuunmong (A Dream of Nine Clouds) by Kim Manjung (1637–1692). The focus lies on a novel extant in two manuscripts: Sinjŭng Kuullu (Revised augmented editionof the Nine Cloud Tower) and Sinjŭng chaeja Kuun’gi...