Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Rethinking Identities
Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a surprising dearth of work on multiple, heterogeneous...
by John Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
«Ut pictura poesis», Horace said, but through the two millennia in which «the sister arts» have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in «our mind’s eye» as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual prompts in texts, one can anatomize...
Boko Haram au Cameroun
Dynamiques plurielles
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Si le déclenchement du phénomène Boko Haram et ses attaques spectaculaires ont sérieusement perturbé le cours de l’histoire des pays comme le Nigeria, le Cameroun, le Tchad et le Niger, ils ont également suscité chez les chercheurs des interrogations pour comprendre les changements et les...
Under Fire
William T. Vollmann, «The Rifles»: A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Following in the steps of the nineteenth-century English explorer John Franklin, the contemporary American...
Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Volume 1: Contexts and analyses Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns...
Cruel Britannia
Sarah Kanes Postmodern Traumatics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics examines four plays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971–1999), all written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the «Cool Britannia», or «In-Yer-Face» London theatre movement of the 1990s. Kane’s plays were notorious for their...
Bernard Shaw in Brazil
The Reception of Theatrical Productions, 19272013
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1927, the first production of Pygmalion was staged in Brazil. At the time, over 65 per cent of the adult Brazilian population was illiterate, which makes it all the more surprising that directors and producers dared to stage such a controversial playwright – a writer who had often been rejected...
Literatura y ficción
La ruptura de la lógica ficcional
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 16, 2015
En este libro se elabora una teoría unificada de los géneros literarios y de la ficcionalidad. Se propone un modelo del texto literario capaz de integrar todas las manifestaciones literarias existentes o imaginables. Además, se intenta mostrar que hay géneros literarios ficcionales y no ficcionales,...
Songbirds on the Literary Stage
The Woman Singer and her Song in French and German Prose Fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this diachronic history of motifs...
The Political Woman in Print
German Womens Writing 18451919
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This book analyses the depiction and function of politically active women in novels by six female authors from the margins of the democratic revolution of 1848 and the first German women’s movement: Louise Aston, Malwida von Meysenbug, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Fanny Lewald, Louise Otto-Peters,...
Extremos
Visiones de lo extremo en literatura, historia, música, arte, cine y lingueística en España y Austria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2017
El siglo XX fue, según Eric Hobsbawm, la "época de los extremos": guerras, genocidios, opciones políticas extremas y la llegada al poder de regímenes autoritarios, la amenaza nuclear, la sobreexplotación de los recursos naturales, violencia, pobreza y hambrunas extremas de un lado,...
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
On the Verge of Nihilism
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The first time that Nietzsche crossed the path of Dostoevsky was in the winter of 1886–87. While in Nice, Nietzsche discovered in a bookshop the volume L’esprit souterrain. Two years later, he defined Dostoevsky as the only psychologist from whom he had anything to learn. The second, metaphorical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it encourage? This collection features...
The Colombian Political Novel 19511987
A Critical Contribution
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their broader implications, such as...