| |
This book explores the multifaceted concepts of otherness, barbarism and exteriority. Is encountering the ‘Other’ still possible in a world in which we all have become rootless, disconnected and strangers, alienated from the outside world and from ourselves? Does the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-22
PDF
|
What do we do when we are about to utter speech? On which linguistic units do we rely? How do these units evolve from childhood to adulthood, or across time for a given language? How do we assemble these units under the influences of syntactic, phonological and prosodic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-21
PDF
|
Fra i migliori esempi di prosa modernista spagnola, le Sonatas di Ramón del Valle-Inclán costituiscono le «memorias amables» di Xavier de Bradomín, un dongiovanni «feo, católico y sentimental». La monografia vuole individuare quali di queste caratteristiche avvicinano...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-20
PDF
|
The divide between the techno-scientific and the humanities paradigm has critically endangered general comprehension.The prolegomena to a «unified field theory of futurology» presented here attempt to reconcile these epistemological models by meticulously investigating...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-19
PDF
|
Contents: Lew Zybatow: Geleitwort des Reihenherausgebers – Alexandra Vranceanu/Angelo Pagliardini: Introduzione – Francis Claudon : Humanitas et migration : Dialogue des Anciens et des Modernes – Monica Spiridon : Errances réelles, errances rêvées, errances mythiques –...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-15
PDF
|
It was in The Germ (1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors advocated an ethical approach to art while at the same time acknowledging self-referentiality...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-13
PDF
|
This detailed study explores the significance of the ‘Library of Ireland’, a book series originated in the 1840s by the Young Irelanders Thomas Davis and Charles Gavan Duffy. Focusing on the literary anthologies and literary histories published in this series, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-12
PDF
|
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge tragen aus je unterschiedlicher Perspektive dazu bei, den Aspekt evaluierender Sprachbetrachtung in die wissenschaftliche Analyse sprachlicher Wirklichkeit zu integrieren. Das Konzept «Gute Sprache, schlechte Sprache» ist ein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-12
PDF
|
Throughout the second half of the 20th century various societies were shaped by conflicting trends of globalization and nationalist resurgence, powerful surges of collective identities as well as fragmentation into individualistic subjects. Against this background of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-08
PDF
|
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Lucid, absorbing and vigorous'Independent'Richly intelligent'Financial TimesIn these fascinating essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2012-06-07
ePub
|
Theater has always been the site of visionary hopes for a reformed national future and a space for propagating ideas, both cultural and political, and such a conceptualization of the histrionic art is all the more valuable in the post-9/11 era. The essays in this volume...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-06-01
PDF
|
This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas’...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-08
PDF
|
An important and innovative edition of Milton's shorter verse & the first volume to present the poems with the original spelling and pronunciations intact, offering readers the opportunity to experience the vitality of the poems as they were experienced by Milton's...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-05-04
PDF
|
In the last decade, the so called «spatial turn» has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism. The book focuses on one aspect largely ignored by literary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-04
PDF
|
The short story as an autonomous genre has called the attention of both writers and literary critics with theoretical concerns over the last two centuries. It is a form of writing that has met the favour of readers and publishers alike: because of its very brevity, it...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-03
PDF
|
Ian McEwan’s novels are characterised by innovative forms of plot-oriented storytelling that combine a pronounced interest in contemporary (British) culture and (recent) history with a concern for social and ethical questions. Novels like The Child in Time, Black Dogs,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-02
PDF
|
Postmodernism in Estonian Literary Culture explores the influence of postmodernism on Estonian culture, more precisely its literature. The author takes a look at how postmodernism arrived in the Estonian literary culture and how it took root there, both on a theoretical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-30
PDF
|
Invention and innovation are what distinguish the human race from all of the other species on Earth. Throughout history the imagination and pioneering spirit of human kind has compelled us to question why we do things in a certain way and, more importantly, how we can...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2012-04-26
ePub
|
Diese Studie fokussiert den Erstdruck von Sebastian Brants Narrenschiff (1494) als kooperativ produziertes Buch. Im Rahmen einer druckanalytischen Untersuchung eines Exemplars des Erstdrucks werden alle relevanten materiell-medialen Objekteigenschaften erfasst. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-25
PDF
|
This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-04-25
PDF, ePub
|