Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
McLuhan and Symbolist Communication
The Shock of Dislocation
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
With an interview with Derrick de Kerckhove.
Symbolism as a parataxis, as a «jazz of the intellect»: this is the starting point of this research, inspired by a socio-literary interpretation of Marshall McLuhan’s mediology and developed from a diachronic and exegetic perspective. According...
Países en tránsito
Estudios de literatura comparada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Países en tránsito: estudios de literatura comparada es un libro que nace de la necesidad de estudiar la situación que guarda actualmente la literatura, el arte y la cultura hispánica (principalmente de España y Latinoamérica) en relación específicamente con otras tradiciones culturales y...
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
Studies in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, formerly Timothy Ware, is unquestionably the best-known Orthodox theologian in the Western world today. The papers collected in this volume are designed to demonstrate the spread of his own interests and concerns and therefore range from the Desert Fathers to modern...
Self-Giving, Self-Mastery
St John Paul II on Men, Women and Conjugal Chastity
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The dignity of the person has always been a key theme of Pope John Paul II. Perhaps less well known is his emphasis on self-mastery as intrinsic to such dignity. In the love of man and woman, such mastery paves the way to self-giving and provides a richer, deeper experience of the union of persons....
by Yuan Gao
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book presents the first systematic study of Augustine’s insights into passions as well as his approach to the therapy of emotions and their sanctification. Analysing various phases of Augustine’s writings, this work explores the systematic structure of Augustine’s tenets on emotions and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to reassess...
Irish Diasporic Narratives in Argentina
A Reconsideration of Home, Identity and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Departure from Ireland has long occupied a contradictory position in Irish national discourse, alternately viewed as exile or betrayal. This book analyses how departure, as well as notions of home, identity and return, is articulated in the narratives of three members of the Irish diaspora community...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book examines the law and policy governing school acts of collective worship in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and their equivalent in Scotland, which is known as religious observance. The fact that the majority of UK schools (including non-denominational ones) are required by law to organize...
Privatizing Democracy
Global Ideals, European Politics and Basque Territories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Democratization is a process of collective emancipation through self-government. Continuous political contestation is essential for emancipation but, in order to know which strategies and conditions will emancipate us, we also need to know which ones subjugate us. Political mechanisms with the capacity...
Carl Wilhelm Froelichs «On Man and his Circumstances»
A Translation of «Ueber den Menschen und seine Verhaeltnisse»
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book includes both the original German version and, for the first time, an English translation of Carl Wilhelm Frölich’s important essay of 1792, which Georg Foster praised as «one of the rarest creations of our time, the work of a young, right-thinking and sensitive man.» Published anonymously,...
Belonging
An Autoethnography of a Life in Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This book weaves intensely personal and evocative stories into a layered autoethnographic text about the author’s experience of childhood deafness, sign language and education. Interwoven with the performative narrative are powerful stories of stigma, trauma, friendships, relationships, love, isolation...
(Re)imagining African Independence
Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic...
Human Encounters
Introduction to Intercultural Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to intercultural communication in the era of globalization. The reader is introduced to essential concepts in the field, different theories and methods of analysing communication, the importance of verbal and nonverbal languages for bringing about mutual...
Becoming Vampire
Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity positions. Whilst focusing on...