Peter Lang: 4879 books
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being
Representing the Voices of Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
The aim of this volume is to give voice to the various and different perspectives in the investigation of tourism discourse in its written, spoken, and visual aspects. The chapters particularly focus on the interaction between the participants involved in the tourism practices, that is the promoters...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This volume takes a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality. Contributions from 19 authors and specialists, of almost as many diverse origins, grapple with this concept, each in their own way. How can transculturality be described? How can it help us understand our world? Many of the chapters...
Narrative and Space
Across Short Story Landscapes and Regional Places
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
These eight texts deal with different perspectives on the relation between the regional short story, modernism and space. Seven of them concentrate on short prose (the short story and chronicle) and one deals with the novel. Four of them consider canonical pre-modernist and modernist Anglo-American...
Discovering Womens History
German-Speaking Journalists (19001950)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Discovering Women’s History brings to light the work of a selection of German-speaking women journalists from the first half of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to German life and culture, yet are barely known today. The volume builds upon scholarship on women and culture...
Fair Cooperation
A New Paradigm for Cultural Diplomacy and Arts Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
European cultural policy is based on the exchange of artists. It has devoted decades to the objective of encouraging dialogue and enabling cooperative production; especially between the countries of the so-called ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’. Cultural policy makers and agents in Europe,...
The «Dexter Syndrome»
The Serial Killer in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into our cultural consciousness – one who kills darkly and in the dark. All popular media – print, radio, television, and so on – have become absorbed...
Consuming Bollywood
Gender, Globalization and Media in the Indian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Consuming Bollywood is a major activity in the Indian diaspora and the revenue generated from diasporic audiences is growing exponentially. By combining extended qualitative interviews and textual analysis, this book provides an insightful analysis of how the women who are socially located in the...
A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor
Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America traces the journey and transformation of Mildred Sirls, a young Black girl in rural east Texas in the 1930s who picked cotton to help her family survive, to Dr. Mildred Pratt, Professor...
Editions of Chopins Works in the Nineteenth Century
Aspects of Reception History
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book presents the editions of Chopin’s works as cultural texts and gives account of the main events in their reception history. Based on a new typology and an overview of copyright and economics, 140 editions evidence a dominance of a few popular works and genres (nocturnes, mazurkas, waltzes)...
Inspiring Views from «a' the airts» on Scottish Literatures, Art and Cinema
The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Where do Scottish literatures, art, and cinema stand today? What and how do Scottish Studies investigate? Creative writers and scholars give answers to these questions and address vital concerns in Scottish, British, and European history from the Union debate and the Enlightenment to Brexit, ethnic...
Academic posters
A textual and visual metadiscourse analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This volume presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of academic poster presentations, taking into consideration the text and visuals that posters display depending on the discipline within which they are created. As the academic poster is a multimodal genre, different modal aspects have been taken...
Rise of the Early Roman Republic
Reflections on Becoming Roman
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An audaciously daring narrative, this text presents an overview of the early history of Rome, focusing the reader’s attention to those distinctive and often hidden cultural features that contributed to create a unique ancient Roman mindset and civic outlook. Using an historical format, Thomas L....
Guerres dans le monde ibérique et ibéro-américain
Actes du XXXVe Congrès de la S. H. F.
Language: French
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Cet ouvrage réunit les travaux du XXXVe Congrès de la Société des Hispanistes Français (S. H. F.) qui s’est tenu à l’Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 du 20 au 22 mai 2011. Il rassemble une cinquantaine d’articles qui portent non seulement sur l’Espagne, mais aussi sur l’ensemble...
Lœuvre musicale, entre orchestre et école
Une approche didactique de pratiques découte musicale
Language: French
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Cet ouvrage traite de pratiques d’enseignement musical en milieu scolaire ordinaire. Des pratiques qui s’inscrivent dans une collaboration entre institutions culturelles et enseignement public. L’auteur analyse la construction d’une expertise d’écoute musicale chez des élèves de l’enseignement...