Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Will the Modernist
Shakespeare and the European Historical Avant-Gardes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland? This volume explores the rich and diverse landscape of Shakespearean encounters in the tormented aesthetics of pre- and post-World War I Europe. However manipulated,...
Fragmentos de un nuevo pasado
Inventario de mitos prehispánicos en la literatura latinoamericana actual
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Los estudios aquí reunidos tratan acerca de la presencia, poder y productividad de las voces prehispánicas en las literaturas latinoamericanas a partir de los años ochenta. Se lleva a cabo un recorrido por expresiones de diversas geografías (México, Colombia, Perú, Bolivia, Chile y algunos otros...
Daily Life of the Patriarchs
The Way It Was
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
While the literature of the ancient Near East portrays legendary heroes, this is not the case with the biblical narrative, which portrays the patriarchs and matriarchs as fallible human beings. Their story is a multigenerational one of family and the dynamics that exist within. Reading these stories...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of...
Maîtres, précepteurs et pédagogues
Figures de lenseignant dans la littérature italienne
Language: French
Release Date: December 14, 2016
L’ouvrage analyse les représentations littéraires de celui qui incarne l’autorité par sa maîtrise de la culture et du langage, l’enseignant, qui a une longue histoire dans la littérature italienne, depuis l’Atlant du Roland Furieux en passant par les pédagogues des comédies du XVIe...
Bridging the Gap between Education and Employment
English Language Instruction in EFL Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Graduate employability is often put forth as a marker of the success of a given institution or education system. High rates of school and university graduates in jobs offer a number of potential advantages for a country, including encouraging social mobility, increasing citizen participation and social...
by Eunice Ngongkum
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book explores contemporary Anglophone Cameroon poetry’s engagement with the environment through an eco-textual analysis of a cross section of poems from different poets. In this regard, the work broadens the field of ecocriticism beyond the original Anglo-American axis by developing a more...
La traducción en la creación del canon poético
Recepción de la poesía italiana en el ámbito hispánico en la primera mitad del siglo XX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Los años de liquidación del Modernismo y ascenso y consolidación del Novecentismo en el panorama cultural catalán corresponden a una etapa particularmente interesante desde el punto de vista de la traducción. Esto es así tanto por la abundancia de traducciones que se llevaron a cabo, como por...
Las relaciones de sucesos sobre seres monstruosos durante los reinados de Felipe III y Felipe IV (15981665)
Análisis discursivo y edición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Todos los hombres del siglo XVII que sabían leer tuvieron alguna vez una relación de sucesos en sus manos. El XVII fue el siglo de esplendor de estos impresos noticiosos que gacetilleros de todo tipo escribieron, y a los que muy diversos impresores dieron forma en su taller. Portaban siempre nuevas...
The Spanish of the Northern Peruvian Andes
A Sociohistorical and Dialectological Account
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book analyses a set of rarely described regional Spanish varieties spoken throughout much of the northern Peruvian Andes (Cajamarca, La Libertad and Ancash) from a sociohistorical and dialectological perspective. What are the main dialectological features of these varieties? Are these features...
by Raul Montero Gilete, Martin Simonson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Este estudio sobre el mito del héroe en Las Crónicas de Narnia se fundamenta tanto en la crítica literaria y la bibliografía general y específica sobre el autor y su obra, como en las teorías de la literatura infantil y del héroe en las tradiciones literarias occidentales, incluido el Oeste...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Le projet « E pluribus unum » ? L’Italie, de la diversité préromaine à l’unité augustéenne entend faire le tour des populations antiques de l’Italie centrale, illustrant de quelle manière celles-ci ont contribué à forger l’« identité inachevée » de l’Italie romaine. Chaque...
Words in Action
Forms and techniques of film dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Words in Action dedicates to the subject of film dialogue a comprehensive exploration. The book analyzes a wide series of examples, perfectly chosen in contemporary American mainstream cinema – from Gladiator to The Devil Wears Prada, from Schindler’s List to A Beautiful Mind, from Collateral...
by David Hirsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Many of the world’s 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural loss, with variable success....