Peter Lang: 4879 books
America's Atonement
Racial Pain, Recovery Rhetoric, and the Pedagogy of Healing -- 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
The second edition of America’s Atonement: Racial Pain, Recovery Rhetoric, and the Pedagogy of Healing argues that racial pain is a driving force in contemporary race relations and is especially prevalent in social discourses on identity, fairness, and social justice. Despite its importance, racial...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented at Meaning, Context and Cognition, the first international conference integrating cognitive linguistics and pragmatics initiated by the Department of English...
by Nataša Todorovic
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This study analyzes the indicative and subjunctive da-complements in the Serbian language while comparing and contrasting them with similar finite constructions in other Slavic and Balkan languages. In complex structures, semantic properties of the matrix verb, homophonous da, and aspectual and tense...
Saving France in the 1580s
Writings of Etienne Pasquier
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Etienne Pasquier (1529–1615) was a renowned magistrate of the Parliament of Paris, a poet, an advisor to the last Valois kings as well as to Henri IV, and a founder of modern French historiography. This book examines Pasquier’s use of various genres: the dialogue, the published correspondence,...
Chateaubriand
The Paradox of Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This reassessment of Chateaubriand’s literary and political achievements, offered as an intellectual biography of the writer, is centred on the concept of change and Chateaubriand’s emotional suspicion of change, arising both from mistrust of his own inconstancy and from the personal and collective...
by Kyle A. Schenkewitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of healing to instruct and guide their followers in...
«New Portuguese Letters» to the World
International Reception
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Published in 1972, New Portuguese Letters addressed censored issues – such as the colonial war, immigration, the Catholic Church, violence, and the legal and social status of women – becoming a symbol of resistance against the Fascist Portuguese regime. Privileging feminist approaches, this volume...
Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness
Views from the Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Whiteness is a narrative. It is the privileged dimension of the complex story of "race" that was, and continues to be, seminal in shaping the socio-economic structure and cultural climate of the United States and other Western nations. Without acknowledging this story, it is impossible to...
African American Males in Higher Education Leadership
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
African American Males in Higher Education Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities presents narratives from thirteen African American males working in higher education leadership. Their narratives describe the barriers and roadblocks that continue to impede them while climbing the ivory tower ladder...
by Thomas Kohnen
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European background of English, it gives...
Approaches to Middle English
Variation, Contact and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and...
Postgraduate Study in Australia
Surviving and Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies, what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially, when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate Study in Australia: Surviving and...
Innovations in Refugee Protection
A Compendium of UNHCRs 60 Years- Including Case Studies on IT Communities, Vietnamese Boatpeople, Chilean Exile and Namibian Repatriation
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This compendium synthesizes innovations of the UN High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1951. The book bridges the gap between academic and field work and uses Joseph Nye’s concept of «soft power» as a methodological approach for understanding and solving political and ethical refugee...
Behind the Iron Curtain
Soviet Estonia in the Era of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War. Their topics range from international...