Peter Lang: 4879 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland throughout the medieval and early modern periods. It considers space in both its physical and abstract sense, exploring literature, history, art, manuscript studies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This collection of essays investigates the darker aspects of Diderot, writer, art critic, philosopher and encyclopédiste. The chapters focus on the schism between positive images of the Enlightenment and an undercurrent of disorder, transgression and clandestine intellectual and social practices....
The Concept of the Soul in Marcel Proust
Homophilia, Misogyny, and the Time-Memory Correlative
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The concept of the soul in Platonic, Ciceronian, and Talmudic thought segues into the Celtic tradition, Thomas Aquinas, and Maeterlinck and threads its way through the tapestry of Proust’s narrative and his principal characters. Bette H. Lustig uses a hermeneutic approach to the Proust texts, which...
by Charles A. Nunley
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Robert Desnos remains celebrated today as one of France’s most famous surrealist artists and as a hero and martyr of the French Resistance. Robert Desnos and the Play of Popular Culture sheds new light onto both of these facets of his persona and uncovers the fundamental connections between them...
Shakespeares Tragedies Reviewed
A Spectators Role
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Shakespeare’s Tragedies Reviewed explores how the recognition of spectator interests by the playwright has determined the detailed character of Shakespeare tragedies. Utilizing Shakespeare’s European models and contemporaries, including Cinthio and Lope de Vega, and following forms such as Aristotle’s...
Coming of Age in Francos Spain
Anti-Fascist Rites of Passage in Sender, Delibes, Laforet, Matute, and Martín Gaite
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
How could authors not write about the effects of a civil war that tore their nation in two, that divided and destroyed families and friends? They had to tell the story, though they were carefully scrutinized and censored. How could they resist artistically and present alternate voices and visions...
Chaucers Choices
Through the looking-glass of medieval imagery
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and Criseyde». The study highlights the significance of the continuity of imagery in language and material culture for cultural transmission, providing...
by Ryszard Nycz
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from...
by Lillian Brise
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed...
Wisława Szymborskas poetry
Choice of essays- Translated by Karolina Krasuska and Jedrzej Burszta
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This is a reader’s book about Wisława Szymborska’s poetry. She holds the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1996. The Contents of the book are the Nobel Lecture held in Stockholm at the official ceremony by the poet in December 1996, a choice of Polish essays about Szmyborska’s poetry and translations...
The Mind Screen
Identification Desire and Its Cinematic Arena
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
For well over a century cinema has exerted enormous influence, yet many questions regarding its fascination remain unanswered. Films work so well because the viewers tend to unconsciously identify with the actors/actresses. The desire to become another, substituting identity by identification, can...
The Myth of the Orient
Architecture and Ornament in the Age of Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868) – by presenting the latest research on the spectacular smoking room inspired...
Language Use in University Teaching and Research
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2014 of EFNIL in Florence
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
The twelfth conference of the European Federation of the National Institutions of Language (EFNIL) at the Accademia della Crusca dealt with the increasing tendency to use English as the language of academic instruction and research in Europe. This development can be seen as progress in international...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Public deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable. This volume provides rhetorical analyses of institutional websites, political speeches, scientific presentations, journalistic accounts or visual entertainment. It...