Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
by Sabine Flach, Suzanne Anker
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
In this collaborative work between artist and theorist Suzanne Anker and art historian Sabine Flach, the study of image production unveils the reality of pictures beyond their function as mere representations of the world. The visuals range from firsthand accounts of specimen collections in historical...
Identity and Loss of Historical Memory
The Destruction of Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Archives are the documentary memory of each society and so they become one of the pillars of its identity. Its destruction is sometimes accidental, but it is often deliberate in order to remove the ties with the past. The new times that revolutions attempt to reach usually involve forceful and symbolic...
Lentreprise généalogique / The Genealogical Enterprise
Pratiques sociales et imaginaires en Europe (XVeXIXe siècles) / Social Practices and Collective Imagination in Europe (15th20th century)
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Le présent ouvrage porte sur les ressorts de l’entreprise généalogique. L’investigation sur la parenté est un choix, souvent risqué : tout l’enjeu étant ici de mieux cerner les implications sociales de cette entreprise, à la croisée de l’individuel et du collectif, en la rapportant...
Imagining Bombay, London, New York and Beyond
South Asian Diasporic Writing from 1990 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book examines new literary imaginings of the interconnected city spaces of Bombay, London and New York in South Asian diasporic texts from the 1990s to the present. It charts the transition from London-centric studies on postcolonial city spaces to the new axis of Bombay, London and New York.
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Subtitles and Language Learning
Principles, strategies and practical experiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book is meant to provide a scientific and educational guide for researchers, language professionals and students of applied linguistics. The collected articles incorporate past and recent research on the use of subtitles as foreign language learning tools, and describe some interesting teaching/learning...
The Inclusion Delusion?
Reflections on Democracy, Ethos and Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
It may seem self-evident that a democratic society ought to develop inclusive institutions and an inclusive educational system, yet when we try to define what we understand by inclusion, its complexity becomes apparent. This book does not seek to diminish that complexity but aims to deepen our understanding...
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity
Commemoration and Contestation in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ – a term that acknowledges...
A History of Football in North and South Korea c.19102002
Development and Diffusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
For the Koreans, no sport has surpassed football in terms of its popularity and national importance, from the Japanese colonization era onwards. However, its importance has developed over time as a result of unusual and agonizing historical events, including the tragic split between North and South...
by Daniel Hoi Ming Hui
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The aim of this book is to show that during the early half of the twentieth century, Chinese society was disillusioned by both internal dissension and external invasion, and the churches experienced many challenges. In response to the traumatic events of 1920–1949, the Chinese theologian Prof....
A Lexical Description of English for Architecture
A Corpus-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book offers a thorough lexical description of an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) variety, English for Architecture, by means of a selfmade corpus. As other knowledge communities, Architecture practitioners have a distinctive discourse and a linguistic identity of their own. Both are conveyed...
The Politics of Dubbing
Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates surrounding the use of the Italian...
Alternative Worlds
Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In an attempt to counteract the doom and gloom of the economic crisis and the politicians’ overused dictum that ‘there is no alternative’, this interdisciplinary collection presents a number of alternative worlds that were conceived over the course of the last century. While change at the macro...
Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China
Two Studies with an Annotated Translation of Alfonso Vagnones "Illustrations of the Grand Dao"
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun collaborated on a project to write down...
Echoes of the Rebellion
The Year 1798 in Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The 1798 Rebellion, a watershed event in Irish history, has been a source of both inspiration and controversy over the last two centuries and continues to provoke debate up to the present day. The ongoing discussion about the meaning of the Rebellion has not been limited to history books, but has...