Peter Lang: 4879 books
Histoire, Forme et Sens en Littérature
La Belgique francophone Tome 2 : LÉbranlement (19141944)
Language: French
Release Date: July 26, 2017
L’invasion allemande d’août 1914 suscite en Belgique un véritable sentiment patriotique qui se manifeste par la résistance imprévue de l’armée belge. À Noël 1914, les troupes impériales sont enlisées dans les plaines de la rive droite de l’Yser.
Le viol de la neutralité...
Carlos BulosanRevolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Carlos Bulosan—Revolutionary Filipino Writer in the United States: A Critical Appraisal is an in-depth, critical evaluation of Bulosan's major works in the context of the sociopolitical changes that configured his sensibility during the Depression, the united-front mobilization prior to World War...
Fractured
Race Relations in «Post-Racial» American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
«What do you think is meant by the term ‘post-racial’ and how far do you think we’ve come, as a country, toward achieving it?» Helen Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators, community organizers,...
The Art of Kunst
Selected Poems, Letters, and Other Writings by Thomas Kunst
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This book introduces for the first time selected poetry, letters, and other writings by the German writer Thomas Kunst (Leipzig) to the English-speaking world. Given the many prestigious awards the writer has received for his poetry and the originality of his imaginative thinking, the Turkish-German...
Religions in World- and Global History
A View from the German-language Discussion
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The author argues that religious history is underestimated in its importance for World- and Global history. The history of religions is quite often an established sub-discipline within convincing research traditions. In order to reconstruct the past adequately, historians need academically controlled...
Charles Darwins Looking Glass
The Theory of Evolution and the Life of its Author in Contemporary British Fiction and Non-Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The book offers a comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Analysing the uses of the evolutionary discourse in recent literature and films, the study demonstrates how natural science influences the...
by Beata Kiersnowska
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book analyses certain ideologies which governed the middle class’ hegemonic approach to leisure in Victorian Manchester. The study presents different forms of leisure, recreation and entertainment in the city. The author also examines the reasons for the support and financial involvement of...
Constructing Scottish Identity in Media Discourses
The Use of Common Sense Knowledge in the Scottish Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Scotland’s efforts to establish and assert its distinct national identity have a long tradition. National identity has been a central theme throughout the centuries in a country where economic, political, and social issues have tended to be closely bound up with questions of national mentality and...
Schweizer Jahrbuch fuer Musikwissenschaft- Annales Suisses de Musicologie- Annuario Svizzero di Musicologia
Neue Folge / Nouvelle Série / Nuova Serie- 32 (2012)- Redaktion / Rédaction / Redazione: Luca Zoppelli
Language: French
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Der 32. Band des Schweizer Jahrbuchs für Musikwissenschaft stellt das vielfältige Spektrum der musikwissenschaftlichen Forschung in der Schweiz vor. Er beinhaltet ebenso Beiträge von im Ausland tätigen Kollegen. Dazu gehören insbesondere die Überlegungen von Fabrizio Della Seta zu Aspekten der...
The Apotheosis of Nullity
A Transhistorical Genealogy of Human Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari. Emphatic, acerbic, loquacious, impassioned, and marshaling a considerable array of theoretical and literary frameworks—from...
Erschwerte Lektueren
Der literarische Text im 20. Jahrhundert als Herausforderung fuer den Leser
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Im 20. Jahrhundert werden verstärkt abstrakte literarische Texte erzeugt, die als semiotische Angebote komponiert sind. Die Generierung der semantischen Dimension des Textes wird dabei in unterschiedlichem Maße an den Leser delegiert, und zwar im Sinne nicht abschließbarer, auf semiotischen Strukturen...
Norman Manea
Aesthetics as East Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's aesthetics is seen also as an Eastern...
by Malgorzata Budzowska, Jadwiga Czerwinska
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The reception of Mediterranean Antiquity heritage is one of the dominant research areas in contemporary classical studies. This issue has constituted the scope of the conference Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture, which took place at the University of Łódź (Poland)...
Breaking the Silence
Poetry and the Kenotic Word
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words, so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of the divine Word on the Cross. An introductory discussion...