Peter Lang: 4879 books
The Other Guy
Media Masculinity Within the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Suffering from «manopause» and «Low T», underemployed and unwilling to grow up, «the other guy» has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to change with the times,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets these alongside parallel studies...
Redeemed at Countless Cost
The Recovery of Iconographic Theology and Religious Experience from 1850 to 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of religion. The introduction sets...
Space and Location in the Circulation of Knowledge (14001800)
Korea and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
In response to the recent surge of interest in studying epistemic transfers and changes, this volume assembles an interdisciplinary range of articles that look at the production, consumption and dissemination of knowledge in East Asia, centering on Korea, under the paradigm of knowledge circulation....
Decolonization and the Struggle for National Liberation in India (19091971)
Historical, Political, Economic, Religious and Architectural Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
At the end of the First World War, the Raj remained economically or even strategically more central than ever in the general colonial architecture of the British Empire. Yet, between the two World Wars, the colonial regime hung only by a thread when confronted with the rising popularity of the nationalist...
Facets of Domestication
Case Studies in Polish-English and English-Polish Translation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Lawrence Venuti’s distinction between foreignizing and domesticating translation is a powerful concept in translation studies. This volume discusses domestication and foreignization in Polish-English and English-Polish translation and presents case studies of film, prose, poetry, and non-fiction,...
by Johnny Reinhard
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Bach and Tuning is strictly concerned with the identification of a historically accurate tuning paradigm that applies to the great majority of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music. Once Bach has his personal tuning aesthetic acknowledged, a new dimension of meaning is invoked in performance through the...
The Final Crossing
Death and Dying in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe and from different time periods....
Only Connect
E. M. Forsters Legacies in British Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Since Forster’s death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf’s terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Health and healthy life styles are something that we all would like to induce in our youths and children. This book provides a new perspective for health education. It represents Finnish ideas and solutions of health education and provides analyses of health promotion. In today’s world, health education...
Lectures croisées
Essays by Alan Raitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This selection of essays by Alan Raitt provides a series of cross-readings of nineteenth-century French literary authors and texts. The collection revolves around Flaubert and Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, the two authors with whom Raitt is most associated, situating them and their principal works in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Les fratries ont-elles une histoire ? Longtemps oubliées par l’historiographie, elles suscitent aujourd’hui un intérêt grandissant chez les historiens, dont témoigne cet ouvrage collectif riche d’une trentaine de contributions issues de deux colloques internationaux. Mal connus, frères...
Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age
New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The continuous evolution of internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities,...
The «Pauline» Spirit World in Eph 3:10 in the Context of Igbo World View
A Psychological-Hermeneutical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Eph 3:10 (Principalities and Authorities in the Heavenly Places) articulates the related cluster of terms that express the «Pauline» spirit world in Ephesians’. Through a psychological-hermeneutical study, this book contributes to provide a theologically-founded response to the immense challenges...