Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book revisits the notion of World Literature and its applications in Comparative Literature. It suggests the notion not as a means to sift out international paradigms for reading literatures, but as a set of guidelines for the construction of interlocking and/or reciprocally illuminating multilingual...
Locating Hybridity
Creole, Identities and Body Politics in the Novels of Ananda Devi
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for the undermining of the binaries...
The Men with Broken Faces
«Gueules Cassées» of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual...
Electric Worlds / Mondes électriques
Creations, Circulations, Tensions, Transitions (19th21st C.)
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
What interpretation(s) do today’s historians make of electrification? Electrification is a process which began almost a hundred and fifty years ago but which more than one billion men and women still do not have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the...
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being
Representing the Voices of Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
The aim of this volume is to give voice to the various and different perspectives in the investigation of tourism discourse in its written, spoken, and visual aspects. The chapters particularly focus on the interaction between the participants involved in the tourism practices, that is the promoters...
Narrative and Space
Across Short Story Landscapes and Regional Places
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
These eight texts deal with different perspectives on the relation between the regional short story, modernism and space. Seven of them concentrate on short prose (the short story and chronicle) and one deals with the novel. Four of them consider canonical pre-modernist and modernist Anglo-American...
Discovering Womens History
German-Speaking Journalists (19001950)
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Discovering Women’s History brings to light the work of a selection of German-speaking women journalists from the first half of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to German life and culture, yet are barely known today. The volume builds upon scholarship on women and culture...
Fair Cooperation
A New Paradigm for Cultural Diplomacy and Arts Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
European cultural policy is based on the exchange of artists. It has devoted decades to the objective of encouraging dialogue and enabling cooperative production; especially between the countries of the so-called ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’. Cultural policy makers and agents in Europe,...
Academic posters
A textual and visual metadiscourse analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This volume presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of academic poster presentations, taking into consideration the text and visuals that posters display depending on the discipline within which they are created. As the academic poster is a multimodal genre, different modal aspects have been taken...
Guerres dans le monde ibérique et ibéro-américain
Actes du XXXVe Congrès de la S. H. F.
Language: French
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Cet ouvrage réunit les travaux du XXXVe Congrès de la Société des Hispanistes Français (S. H. F.) qui s’est tenu à l’Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 du 20 au 22 mai 2011. Il rassemble une cinquantaine d’articles qui portent non seulement sur l’Espagne, mais aussi sur l’ensemble...
Lœuvre musicale, entre orchestre et école
Une approche didactique de pratiques découte musicale
Language: French
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Cet ouvrage traite de pratiques d’enseignement musical en milieu scolaire ordinaire. Des pratiques qui s’inscrivent dans une collaboration entre institutions culturelles et enseignement public. L’auteur analyse la construction d’une expertise d’écoute musicale chez des élèves de l’enseignement...
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Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Cet ouvrage réunit des contributions qui illustrent, d’une part, l’intrication de la didactique analytique (analyse des pratiques discursives en classe de langue et en amont de ces pratiques, l’analyse des pratiques de programmation, en lien avec leurs fondements théoriques) et de la programmation...
Mothers on Mothers
Maternal Readings of Popular Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the varied and diverse ways in which expectant, new and...
Les Convergences entre passé et futur dans les collections des arts du spectacle- Connecting Points: Performing Arts Collections Uniting Past and Future
Congrès de Munich - Munich Congress
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Passé, présent et futur sont destinés à être intrinsèquement liés dans le traitement des collections des arts du spectacle. Car leur principale mission est bien de préserver le passé, de déployer des activités au présent et de mettre en place des stratégies pour le futur. Les défis quotidiens...