Peter Lang: 4879 books
Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes
Confessions from the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Have you ever been told that you’re too girlish or too boyish? We are all potential targets of the gender police, some more so than others. And how did you respond? Did you hide or change or rebel or hurt or gleefully celebrate your style? Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is a study that brings together...
The Archers in Fact and Fiction
Academic Analyses of Life in Rural Borsetshire
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
If you have ever wondered about the ethical implications of Dr Richard Locke’s affair with Shula Hebden Lloyd, or whether the ergonomic design of tractor seats could have prevented Tony Archer from getting a bad back, then this book is for you. Leading academics from across the United Kingdom use...
Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space
Borders, Networks, Escape Lines
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts....
by Sarah Jonckheere
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. The author of this book analyses the ethnocultural, technological, and ideological skeins that make up the biopolitical production of the self. The coming-of-age novel «The Diamond Age» reflects...
Cinema at the Shore
The Beach in French Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From Brigitte Bardot in her bikini at the Cannes Film Festival, to François Ozon’s intimate portrayals of grief and loss, some of the most iconic and challenging moments in French cinema are associated with the beach. Cinema at the Shore argues that the Parisian cityscape is not the only significant...
French Feminisms 1975 and After
New Readings, New Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a sophisticated theoretical approach...
René Marans «Batouala»
Jazz-Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The polemic excited by Batouala’s controversial Preface has conditioned an enduring, near-universal acceptance of a disjunction of Preface and novel. This is the first book to challenge that premise. The fallacious underpinnings of the origin persistence of this view are shown to lie in Western,...
Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than...
French Ecocriticism
From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book revisits the notion of World Literature and its applications in Comparative Literature. It suggests the notion not as a means to sift out international paradigms for reading literatures, but as a set of guidelines for the construction of interlocking and/or reciprocally illuminating multilingual...
Locating Hybridity
Creole, Identities and Body Politics in the Novels of Ananda Devi
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for the undermining of the binaries...
The Men with Broken Faces
«Gueules Cassées» of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual...
Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques
Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions (19th21st C.)
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process which began almost a hundred and fifty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the...
Realism and Its Vicissitudes
Essays in Honor of Sandy Petrey
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This collection honors the career of Donald «Sandy» Petrey, Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over forty years. The diversity of essays – written by colleagues, friends, and former students, and ranging in subject from the traditional Festschrift...