Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Views of Albion
The Reception of British Art and Design in Central Europe, 18901918
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more significant than the influence of Paris....
Ye whom the charms of grammar please
Studies in English Language History in Honour of Leiv Egil Breivik
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historical linguistics. Core topics covered include the development of existential there and related phenomena, word order, the evolution of adverbials, null...
Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race
Black Female Tricksters Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with tricksters who throw dust in...
Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer
A Collection of Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal authors in the field of literary...
Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
In a time of global environmental crisis, pastoralism may seem beside the point. Yet pastoral ideals are still alive even though they often manifest themselves by ironic indirection. What can the pastoral tradition teach us about our ties to particular places?
The contributors to this volume attempt...
Différance in Signifying Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee and Deconstructive Re-visions of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions. This monograph engages Robinson Crusoe in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier’s Friday and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology. Basing the argument upon the assumption that Robinson Crusoe is a myth of...
Out of Time
The Deaths and Resurrections of Doctor Who
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Doctor Who is one of television’s most enduring and ubiquitously popular series. This study contends that the success of the show lies in its ability, over more than half a century, to develop its core concepts and perspectives: alienation, scientific rationalism and moral idealism. The most extraordinary...
Landscapes of Power
Selected Papers from the XV Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the interaction between power and the natural and human environments...
Two Studies on Pindar
edited by Arlette Neumann-Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The late Bruce Karl Braswell worked on Pindar for decades. Besides many smaller contributions, his research resulted in fundamental commentaries on Pythian Four (1988), Nemean One (1992), and Nemean Nine (1998), and his last monograph, dedicated to Didymos of Alexandria and his ancient commentary...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland throughout the medieval and early modern periods. It considers space in both its physical and abstract sense, exploring literature, history, art, manuscript studies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This collection of essays investigates the darker aspects of Diderot, writer, art critic, philosopher and encyclopédiste. The chapters focus on the schism between positive images of the Enlightenment and an undercurrent of disorder, transgression and clandestine intellectual and social practices....
The Myth of the Orient
Architecture and Ornament in the Age of Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868) – by presenting the latest research on the spectacular smoking room inspired...
Korean Screen Cultures
Interrogating Cinema, TV, Music and Online Games
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The «Korean Wave», or Hallyu phenomenon, has brought South Korean popular culture to the global population. Studies on Korean visual culture have therefore often focused on this aspect, leaving North Korea sidelined and often considered in a negative light because of its political regime. Korean...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
«The duty of the present is neither to copy nor to deny the past but to resurrect it», wrote W.H. Auden in 1948. The European voices that William B. Yeats and Sir Geoffrey Hill choose to resurrect reflect their shared hope in the future of humanity, as the essays in this book demonstrate. From Greek...