Peter Lang: 4879 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In the past few years, the concept of «liminality» has become a kind of pet theme within the discipline of Cultural Studies, lending itself to phenomena of transgression and systemic demarcation. This anthology employs theories of liminality to discuss Canada’s geographic and symbolic boundaries,...
Spectrum of Emotions
From Love to Grief
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture studies. The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma. They demonstrate that...
Home with Hip Hop Feminism
Performances in Communication and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA
Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when...
Immigration and Contemporary British Theater
Finding a Home on the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater has responded to post-war immigration to the United Kingdom through its depictions of home and domestic life. Bridging literary analysis, theater history, and migration studies, the...
by Mable Chan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The present study examines grammaticality judgment data, production data and acceptability judgment data from 243 Cantonese second language learners and a control group of 12 native English speakers. Research areas concern (a) the role of the first language in the acquisition of be by Cantonese second...
The Timeless Toni Morrison
The Past and The Present in Toni Morrisons Fiction. A Tribute to Toni Morrison on Occasion of Her 85th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrison’s fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two. The authors analyze Morrison’s texts not solely as aesthetic, autonomous objects but as manifestations of a cultural and creative...
«Wooden Man»?
Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee («Boyhood», «Youth» and «Summertime»)
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee’s trilogy provides a panoramic view of a man’s...
Fighting Words
Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019
Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped...
Rethinking Orient
In Search of Sources and Inspirations
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The contributions in this book address a vast variety of questions concerning the sources and mutual inspirations in Oriental and European literatures. The authors discuss selected texts from both historical and synchronic perspectives. They reveal and scrutinise the sedimented layers in their search...
by Wolfgang Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Although Wolfgang Schneider’s Grammatik des biblischen Hebräisch: Ein Lehrbuch serves primarily as an introductory textbook to biblical Hebrew, it makes an invaluable contribution to the text-linguistic study of Hebrew Bible. Schneider’s understanding of narrative syntax and discourse linguistics...
A Slavic Republic of Letters
The Correspondence between Jernej Kopitar and Baron Žiga Zois
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book discusses the correspondence between Jernej Kopitar, a co-founder of Slavic studies and proponent of Austro-Slavism, and Baron Žiga Zois, an Austrian nobleman and patron of the Slovene national revival. The author treats their letters (composed between 1808–19), which are for the most...
Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll
The Evolution of an American Youth Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘n’ Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering...
by Kathy Bussert-Webb, María Eugenia Díaz, Krystal A. Yanez
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Justice and Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community provides a detailed analysis of colonias along the Mexico–United States border, examining the intersection of culture, education, language, literacy, race, religion, and social class in Latino immigrant communities. The researchers investigated...
by Keith Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Multisensory media – hybrid media that engage more than the auditory and visual senses – is beginning to change the way that we communicate. While hardware and software for capturing and emitting different types of sensory data are still being developed, this book lays a theoretical foundation...