Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Historical Memories in Culture, Politics and the Future
The Making of History and the World to Come
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This book is written to satisfy the individual’s desire for intellectual stimulation, to sow in the mind the seed of new ideas, and involve the reader in productive debates. It covers culture, history and the future, raising questions, presenting arguments and engaging the enquirer in reflection....
LItalia centrale e la creazione di una «koiné» culturale?
I percorsi della «romanizzazione»
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Esito del 2° convegno della serie «E pluribus unum? L’Italia dalla frammentazione preromana all’unità augustea», tenutosi a Roma nel 2014, il libro tratta la «romanizzazione» dell’Italia preromana, affrontando le dinamiche socio-politiche e linguistico-epigrafiche, le strutture economiche...
La France, lAllemagne, lEurope
Mélanges en lhonneur de Chantal Metzger
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Ce recueil rassemble des études d’historiens, géographes et germanistes d’origines diverses. Elles sont réunies en hommage à Chantal Metzger, professeur émérite d’histoire contemporaine à l’université de Lorraine, spécialiste d’histoire de l’Allemagne et des relations internationales,...
Action, interaction, intervention
A la croisée du langage, de la pratique et des savoirs
Language: French
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Dans tout lien social, l’échange entre partenaires inscrit le discours dans une interaction organisée, située, orientée, historiquement construite et régie par des normes : il vise à modifier un réel par un projet d’influence mutuellement ajusté et construit.
Cet ouvrage vise à analyser,...
The Unfortunate Endeavours of Charles Henry Brown
Aeronaut 18271870
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia and India. The story of his quest for recognition is deeply researched, while being told in an anti-generic mode – imagined dialogue, play...
Literatura, ironía y traducción
Un análisis de "La tía Julia y el escribidor "de Mario Vargas Llosa, "La invención de Morel "de Adolfo Bioy Casares y "Tres tristes tigres "de Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 8, 2014
¿Cómo se manifiesta la ironía? ¿Qué recursos lingüísticos permiten identificarla? ¿Cómo se traduce la ironía? ¿Su traducción es determinada por la lengua a la que se traduce, en este caso el francés, inglés y neerlandés? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que el presente trabajo intenta...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Este volumen presenta una serie de trabajos que estudian el reflejo de la identidad en varias obras de la literatura vasca actual. Se trata de estudios sobre diversas expresiones de la identidad: de género, nacional, cultural, queer... Gran parte de ellos son monográficos, aunque no faltan perspectivas...
Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of Endō Shūsaku
Between Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Evil is a salient component of Endō Shūsaku’s writing. Questions surrounding evil haunted the writer as a student of French literature, having discovered the works of Western authors like François Mauriac and Georges Bernanos. It is around the problem of evil that Endō would create his most...
Among Russian Sects and Revolutionists
The Extraordinary Life of Prince D. A. Khilkov
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
In his lifetime Prince Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Khilkov (1857–1914) became known in a number of seemingly contradictory roles and contexts: courageous officer, Tolstoyan, defender of the oppressed, leader of the Dukhobor exodus, revolutionary terrorist and returning Orthodox prodigal. Born into one...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint.
The contributions illustrate the various responses to the insect world that have developed over centuries, concentrating...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This collection of essays focuses on the role of spirituality in American literature through an examination of the multiple ways in which a deep engagement with the spiritual has shaped and affected literature in the Americas (three of the essays involve Canadian and Caribbean literature). The essays...
The Global World and its Manifold Faces
Otherness as the Basis of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The Global World isa pivotal formula in present**-**day «Newspeak». The book’s leitmotif – if it is true that the faces of today’s global world are manifold– is that language opens to the other, that the word’s boundaries are the multiple boundaries of the relation to others, of encounter...
Demographic Aspects of the Early Modern Times
The Example of the Zurich Countryside in a European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The study deals predominantly with basic questions of Historical Demography that have so far not yet been tackled, as no adequate sources seemed to exist, or the effort for digging into these problems seemed outrageous. Many major gaps are filled in this study, based on two types of sources: 14 census-like...
Post-War Middle-Class Housing
Models, Construction and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Post-war middle-class housing played a key role in constructing and transforming the cities of Europe and America, deeply impacting today’s urban landscape. And yet, this stock has been underrepresented in a literature mostly focused on public housing and the work of a few master architects.
This...