Peter Lang: 4879 books

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Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2015

Cet ouvrage réunit des contributions qui illustrent, d’une part, l’intrication de la didactique analytique (analyse des pratiques discursives en classe de langue et en amont de ces pratiques, l’analyse des pratiques de programmation, en lien avec leurs fondements théoriques) et de la programmation...
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Mothers on Mothers

Maternal Readings of Popular Television

by Rebecca Feasey
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015

From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the varied and diverse ways in which expectant, new and...
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Musical Modernism in the Twentieth Century

Translated by Wojciech Bońkowski

by Maciej Golab
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015

This book offers a fresh discussion of the methodology of music historiography. So far historiographical methodology has always depended on other fields within humanities (especially on history) to a degree where it moved the focus of its thought away from the musical work’s structure and away from...
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by Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarminska
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014

The first monograph of the life and œuvre of Marcin Mielczewski (d. 1651) presents the best known Polish composer of seventeenth-century Europe. During the 1990s, while exploring a newly accessible collection of music manuscripts from Silesia (the Sammlung Bohn) held in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek,...
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The Mind's Isle

Imaginary Islands in English Fiction

by Adrian Kempton
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017

Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island fiction as a genre specific to English literature. Close readings of island fictions from the past...
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by Miroslawa Buchholtz
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

Henry James (1843–1916) has been widely acclaimed for the elegance of his prose, the incisiveness of his social comment, and the subtlety of his psychological analyses. Whereas James’s tales and novels have been carefully studied over the past decades, his non-fiction, including literary criticism,...
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Fighting for Our Place in the Sun

Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 19601973

by Richard Benson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X’s educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists...
Cover of Les Convergences entre passé et futur dans les collections des arts du spectacle- Connecting Points: Performing Arts Collections Uniting Past and Future
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014

Passé, présent et futur sont destinés à être intrinsèquement liés dans le traitement des collections des arts du spectacle. Car leur principale mission est bien de préserver le passé, de déployer des activités au présent et de mettre en place des stratégies pour le futur. Les défis quotidiens...
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A Class Apart

The Military Man in French and British Fiction, 17401789

by Karen Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

The military man has long been one of literature’s archetypal figures. Using a comparative framework, this book traces the transformation of the military man in eighteenth-century British and French literature as this figure moved from noble warrior to nationalised professional in response to changes...
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Painters Word

Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt as Writers

by Edyta Frelik
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

This book adds a new perspective to the study of American art by reclaiming underrated writings of three 20th-century masters, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt. Their rich and diverse literary output was never before studied methodically in and beyond the context of their painting....
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New York, New York!

Urban Spaces, Dreamscapes, Contested Territories

by Björn Bosserhoff
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015

Once a center of transatlantic cultural exchange and the avant-garde arts, New York City has transformed into a global metropolis. This book traces a shift that took shape as cultural practices and media underwent dramatic changes: it takes us from modernist visions of urban sublimity to postmodernist...
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Spatial Perspectives

Essays on Literature and Architecture

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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015

This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey through unexplored byways, from Istanbul to New York to London, from event spaces to domestic interiors...
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This Favoured Land

Edward King-Tenison and Lady Louisa in Spain, 18501853

by Lee Fontanella
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017

In the wake of the Irish potato famine, Edward King-Tenison, a sometime Irish politician of the liberal order and one of the first masterful photographers of Spain, and his wife, Lady Louisa Mary Anne Anson, the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, left their estate of Kilronan in County...
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Plotinus Mystical Teaching of Henosis

An Interpretation in the Light of the Metaphysics of the One

by Pao-Shen Ho
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015

Plotinus’ mysticism of henosis, unification with the One, is a highly controversial topic in Plotinian scholarship. This book presents a careful reading of the Enneads and suggests that Plotinus’ mysticism be understood as mystical teaching that offers practical guidance concerning henosis. It...
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