Peter Lang: 4879 books
Textos de los «Lieder» de Richard Strauss
Enfoque poético-musical
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Esta obra es una verdadera composición artística, que cuida el ritmo del lenguaje con un léxico erudito. Y si bien parte de un examen científico minucioso, el mundo interior y creativo de la autora traduce su prosa con dinámica ágil y atractivos ejemplos poético-musicales.
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Différance in Signifying Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee and Deconstructive Re-visions of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions. This monograph engages Robinson Crusoe in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier’s Friday and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology. Basing the argument upon the assumption that Robinson Crusoe is a myth of...
Out of Time
The Deaths and Resurrections of Doctor Who
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Doctor Who is one of television’s most enduring and ubiquitously popular series. This study contends that the success of the show lies in its ability, over more than half a century, to develop its core concepts and perspectives: alienation, scientific rationalism and moral idealism. The most extraordinary...
Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age Theater
Essays in Honor of Matthew D. Stroud
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud’s seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated...
From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience
Polish Studies in Literary History and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The volume From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience contains a wide selection of essays, which were published during past decades in academic journal Teksty Drugie and were widely appreciated as significant contributions to the ongoing debate on principles and methods of literary studies. Articles...
by Charlotte Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close analysis of the style, along with...
Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain
Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The essays in this book honor the seminal contributions to the field of early modern Spanish drama of Donald T. Dietz, who has devoted his career to the promotion of classical theater, not just as dramatic poetry but as vibrant performance art. Written by a variety of respected scholars and never...
Contact and Conflict in English Studies
Assistant editors: Christian Groesslinger / Christopher Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various fields of English Studies discuss aspects of contact and conflict in Anglophone literatures, critical theory, cultural studies, interdisciplinary and comparative...
Landscapes of Power
Selected Papers from the XV Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the interaction between power and the natural and human environments...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The volume is uniquely located at the interdisciplinary crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies. As both a method and an object of study, performance deepens our understanding of transnational phenomena and America’s position in the world. The thirteen original contributions...
The Entrenchment of the «unus alterum» Pattern
Four Essays on Latin and Old Romance Reciprocal Constructions
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique solutions, with grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity.
Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory
Transitions and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance in Irish society....
Comparative Becomings
Studies in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object and form of knowledge as it...
Two Studies on Pindar
edited by Arlette Neumann-Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The late Bruce Karl Braswell worked on Pindar for decades. Besides many smaller contributions, his research resulted in fundamental commentaries on Pythian Four (1988), Nemean One (1992), and Nemean Nine (1998), and his last monograph, dedicated to Didymos of Alexandria and his ancient commentary...