Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
The Eye and the Gaze
Goethe and the Autobiographical Subject
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a dominant figure in European literature and intellectual life, was the creator of a new and influential visual culture. This volume investigates a new science of perception through an exploration of his autobiographical works, novels and writings on optics. The psychoanalytic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The fleeting nature of time is a defining feature of modern and postmodern existence. Identified by Reinhart Koselleck as the temporalization («Verzeitlichung») of all areas of human knowledge and experience around 1800, the concept of critical time continues to intrigue researchers across the arts...
Cultural Contexts and Literary Forms
Essays on Genre
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Genres mutate, disappear, travel through translation and sometimes re-emerge. Traditionally viewed as a classificatory device, the idea of genre has been challenged by anti-genre theoreticians who question the possibility of reading texts merely through a typological framework. The essays in this...
New Territories
Theatre, Drama, and Performance in Post-apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
South African theatre, drama, and performance is a vibrant and rapidly developing area of contemporary theatre studies. In this critical anthology of essays and interviews, some of the world’s most respected scholars and practitioners writing and working in the area of South African theatre today...
by Jeremy Tunstall
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book considers British television from the point of view of executive producers: the people who employ the workforce and are in charge of making all television series. The focus of the book is twenty-one separate genres, at least seven of which are in significant decline – namely current affairs,...
Contested Borders
Territorialization, National Identity and «Imagined Geographies» in Albania
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in the development of political agendas that have the potential to shift national borders. The author uses Albania as the primary case study, examining how the understanding of the Albanian nation has taken...
Dubbing, Film and Performance
Uncanny Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Research on dubbing in audiovisual productions has been prolific in the past few decades, which has helped to expand our understanding of the history and impact of dubbing worldwide. Much of this work, however, has been concerned with the linguistic aspects of audiovisual productions, whereas studies...
Exaltation
Ecstatic Experience in Pentecostalism and Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Based on two richly described case studies – a Pentecostal worship service and popular music festival – this book draws on sociology, theology and religious studies in order to understand the significance of ecstatic experience in these contexts. Interviews with performers in both settings, together...
by Shamai Gelander
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book deals with the world of the psalms, in order to reveal the elements of faith as expressed in the various prayers. It includes an encompassing study of the variety of experiences: How can an individual in distress experience a situation which contrasts his actual reality altogether? What...
Medicine Matters in Five Comedies of Shakespeare
From the Renaissance Context to a Reading of the Plays
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The book examines the presence of medicine matters in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, and documents how the theme of medicine can acquire particular importance for the interpretation...
Lelamour Herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r57r)
An Annotated Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
One of the three most important medical herbals composed in Middle English, both in terms of physical length and for the number of species treated, and regularly quoted not only by the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary or the Middle English Dictionary but also by historians of Natural Sciences...
Transatlantic Poe
Eliot, Williams and Huxley, Readers of the French Poe
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a «new specimen of beauty»? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for redefining American literature? This book offers a new understanding of Poe's literary significance by considering the transatlantic reception of the author...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Comment l’espace médiatique (presse, télé, web) façonne-t-il la définition et l’attribution de valeurs pour des entités de toutes sortes ? Au moment où abondent les instruments d’évaluation fondés sur la quantification – des indicateurs aux classements, des hit-parades aux baromètres,...
The Irish Short Story
Traditions and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Often hailed as a ‘national genre’, the short story has a long and distinguished tradition in Ireland and continues to fascinate readers and writers alike. Critical appreciation of the Irish short story, however, has laboured for too long under the normative conception of it as a realist form,...