Peter Lang: 4879 books
Electronic Communication
Political, Social and Educational uses
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Whether they are citizens or political, client or company, learner or teacher, men now converse with a variety of stakeholders by using ICT. All these electronic tools promote uses and practices which give them considerable power of speech, strong freedom of expression and choice. So each of us participates...
Public Service Media Renewal
Adaptation to Digital Network Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This book analyses the adaptivity of public service media (PSM) to the digital network age. The authors use specific case studies and research initiatives, involving a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, to argue that current changes in media and society offer a wide range of possibilities...
by Bernadette Marie Calafell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In a society that increasingly touts post-racial and post-feminist discourses, the trope of monstrosity becomes a way to critically examine contemporary meanings around race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Focusing on ways in which historically marginalized groups appropriate monstrosity as...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The figure of the child has long been a mainstay of Italian cinema, conventionally interpreted as a witness of adult shortcomings, a vessel of innocence, hope and renewal, or an avatar of nostalgia for the (cinematic) past. New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema challenges these settled categories...
The South in the German Imaginary
The Italian Journeys of Goethe and Heine
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The division between North and South in Europe represents a geographical as well as a cultural boundary that has influenced the way many European nations think about their history and identity. This divide is particularly prominent in the cultural dialogue between Germany and Italy and has played...
Unequal Friendship
The Patron-Client Relationship in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, as well as twentieth-century America. It also analyzes clientelism...
Veterans, Victims, and Memory
The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand...
Mircea Eliade
From Magic to Myth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade’s ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature with his arrival in the West....
by Ivana Marenzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This work, concerned with the significance of literacy and multiliteracies in the 21st century, examines pedagogy from the perspective of Web 2.0 tools and the potential of social networks to improve the quality of learning. Drawing on five years research in German and Italian universities, the author...
A Minimalist View on the SyntaxSemantics Relationship
Turning the Mind into a Snowflake
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Current developments of the Minimalist Program in generative linguistics put the procedure of labeling syntactic objects at the center of the syntax–semantics transition. This book provides a discussion of consequences of such proposals for a proper analysis of different varieties of the operation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book explores the differences between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultures in an Irish context, arguing that these differences require constant revision and redefinition. The volume includes analysis of famous Irish writers such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett,...
Politics of Cross-Cultural Reading
Tagore, Ben Jelloun and Fo in English
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The last two decades have witnessed an upsurge in scholarship on world literature. In most of this work world literature is understood as a concept in intellectual history, as a cultural system or as a curriculum to be taught. Grounded in three empirical case studies, this book complements such approaches...
Talking Back to Globalization
Texts and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Globalization is one of the most widely circulated, high-stakes buzzwords of the past generation; yet discussion of the topic is often encased in paradox and contention over what globalization is, to whom and where it may (or may not) apply, and to what effect. In Talking Back to Globalization: Texts...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This collection of essays examines the relationship between the media and cosmopolitanism in an increasingly fragmented and globalizing world. This relationship is presented from multiple perspectives and the essays cover, amongst other themes, cosmopolitanization in everyday life, the mediation of...