Peter Lang: 4879 books
American Responses to the Holocaust
Transatlantic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies in a new American Studies perspective. This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatlantic interaction. As the Holocaust grew into an important factor in American culture, it also became...
The Life and Ministry of Prophet Garrick Sokari Braide
Elijah the Second of Niger Delta, Nigeria (c. 1882-1918)
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
This study investigates the life and activities of Garrick Sokari Idikatima Braide, an African prophet, missionary and revivalist, in the evangelization of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria from 1890 to 1920. The book focuses on Braide’s revival movement and its impact on the mainstream churches and...
by Jacek Dobrowolski
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Award-winning essay in philosophical anthropology meditating on who, in terms of history of ideas, modern western man was, is, and will perhaps become. The author focuses on developments of modern man’s self-knowledge, understood both as concept of his own human nature and as individual self-consciousness,...
Digital Literature for Children
Texts, Readers and Educational Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book is the result of a research project carried out by the research group GRETEL from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) on children’s and adolescents’ digital literary education. It offers some of the outcomes of this project and combines them with other contributions from internationally...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The objective of Hispanic (LGT) Masculinities in Transition is to investigate the cultural representations/intersections of masculinity and sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, and transgenders) in Spain between the passing of the Law of Social Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) and the...
Zooming In
Micro-Scale Perspectives on Cognition, Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This book explores the influence of culture and cognition on translation and communication and brings together revised versions of papers delivered at the First International TransLingua Conference, organized in 2015 by the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Department of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
The present study examines the interrelation between literary texts, their successive retranslations and the corresponding historical, social and cultural backgrounds that inform these versions. In the case of each text, the authors analyse both the external factors (sociohistorical circumstances,...
Heightened Performative Autoethnography
Resisting Oppressive Spaces within Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book argues for – and carries out – what the author terms Heightened Performative Autoethnography (HPA). The common theme throughout the volume involves resisting oppressive and hegemonic spaces within paradigms, and hence seeking epistemological liberation. The text methodologically and...
Mazes and Amazements
Borges and Western Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Borges gained his first lessons in philosophy from his father while still a young boy – an intimate home schooling that grew into a long-term obsession. Its ubiquitous presence in his thought and writing has made him one of the most distinctive literary philosophers in the West, expressing itself...
Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»
Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»: Transcultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Pedro Almodóvar is an internationally acclaimed Spanish director. The national and international fascination over Almodóvar’s cinema lies in his ability to reflect the problems of contemporary society, his lucidity in combining the urban and the rural, his ability to express the frustrations of...
Mean Green
Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life along the border through the...
by Julie N. Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
In this close analysis of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics in his Critique of Judgment, Dr. Julie N. Books, explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. Drawing upon her extensive background in the visual arts,...
Enacting Nature
Ecocritical Perspectives on Indigenous Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In the ecological challenges of the twenty-first century, interculturally sensitive understandings of nature, place, and environment are essential for the development of a planetary community.
Acknowledging that the future of humankind is global, this volume explores the multi-faceted semantics of...