Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Popular Fiction in the Age of Bismarck
E. Marlitt and her Narrative Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
E. Marlitt was a bestselling author of the late nineteenth century whose romance novels dominated the German literary market between 1865 and 1888. Her novels appeared in thirty languages, with as many as five different English translations circulating simultaneously in the United States alone. While...
Fairy tale interrupted
Feminism, Masculinity, Wonder Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Feminism, masculinity and fairy tale figure within an extended analysis of Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991), in light of the live-action remake, Beauty and the Beast (2017). The history of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast is compared with Disney's adaptation which centralises the figure of...
In Search of a Dream America
Place in the Life Writing of Eastern European Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual places in America. The authors discussed in the book (Vasily Aksyonov, Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, Edward...
Redesigning Life
Eugenics, Biopolitics, and the Challenge of the Techno-Human Condition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault’s,...
The Impact of Study Abroad on the Acquisition of Sociopragmatic Variation Patterns
The Case of Non-Native Speaker English Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
This book investigates the study abroad profile of non-native speaker teachers of English, exploring the impact of studying abroad on the acquisition of sociopragmatic variation patterns and the relationship between such patterns and identity development.
Introducing the concept of ‘loci of learning’,...
Tiananmen redux
The hard truth about the expanded neoliberal world order
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book contends that the massacre of civilians in Beijing on June Fourth 1989 was a pivotal rupture in both Chinese and world history. If not for that day, China’s socioeconomic, political and cultural landscape would not have undergone the kind of dramatic transformation that has made China...
Ukraine after the Euromaidan
Challenges and Hopes
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Ukraine’s protest movement of 2013–14, known as the Euromaidan, and its culmination, the people’s uprising in late 2013–early 2014 became one of the most dramatic world events in recent years. The accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation and military conflict in the Donbas demonstrate...
Islam and the West
The Limits of Freedom of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Religious Intolerance is on the rise. Debating religious freedom often means debating «West» versus «Islam». This book challenges crucial stereotypes around this issue. It explores the scope of the right to freedom of religion in the International Treaties and Declarations and investigates why...
Narrating Itsembabwoko
When Literature becomes Testimony of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The tenacious belief in a disjunction of genocide and art has risen a persisting polemic in literary cricism. Narrating Itsembabwoko challenges this dichotomous thinking by assuming that a narrative about genocide is both a work and a testimony because the sense-making in work is a shared construction...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Spiritual guidance is the serious business of Mount Athos, the principal service that the Fathers offer to each other and to the world. Athonites have been purveyors of spiritual guidance for more than a thousand years in a tradition that goes back to the fourth-century desert fathers. The recent...
Récit national et imaginaires identitaires au double prisme du « bilinguisme » et de la « migration »
Une autre lecture des dynamiques de cohabitation dans deux petites communes suisses
Language: French
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Renversant les perspectives d’analyses habituelles sur le bilinguisme et la migration, souvent dissociées, l’auteure de cet ouvrage propose une lecture des rapports entre groupes germanophones et francophones, en l’articulant avec « l’intégration des étrangers », notamment par la langue,...
by Anja Hänsch
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This study investigates long-lasting cultural constructions of childbirth. Four symbolic patterns of childbirth emerge from the analysis of a variety of texts ranging from myths, philosophy, literature and religion to ethics of modern medicine. On a symbolic level «The Supremacy of the Male» attributes...
'Truthe is the beste'
A Festschrift in Honour of A.V.C. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The thirteen essays in this book, presented in honour of Dr A.V.C. (Carl) Schmidt, are designed to reflect the range of his interests. Dr Schmidt, who was a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from 1972 until his retirement in 2011, is best known for his comprehensive four-text edition of Piers Plowman,...
Intersubjectivity, Humanity, Being
Edith Steins Phenomenology and Christian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This volume brings together revised versions of papers presented at the inaugural conference of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES). The conference papers are supplemented by a number of specially commissioned essays in order to provide a representative...