Books published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Evil is a salient component of Endo Shusaku's writing. Questions surrounding evil haunted the writer as a student of French literature, having discovered the works of Western authors like Francois Mauriac and Georges Bernanos. It is around the problem of evil that Endo would create his most renowned novels and the cross-cultural dimensions of the questions he posed on the nature of evil would make him one of the most widely translated Japanese authors. This study offers new insight into the intellectual and artistic development of the author by focusing on a lesser known yet significant body of work: his essays and critical texts. The book is, on the one hand, an attempt to follow the path of thinking delineated by Endo Shusaku himself and, on the other, a methodological approach to literary studies based on the application of selected categories of Paul RicA ur's hermeneutics. Thus, the book accentuates the problem of subjectivity and personhood in Endo's works, ultimately exploring the question, Who is the one who asks about evil?

The formative influences of Paris and France on the Anglo-Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) cannot be underestimated. These essays examine Moore's "French connections" and explore how his eclectic writings reflect the complex evolution of literature from Naturalism to Modernism through Symbolism and Decadence.

Ensuring quality in and through teaching and learning has become a fundamental global concern. This book brings together a series of background and case study chapters from leading scholars in the field of teacher education internationally. It interrogates how quality cultures can be fostered in the field of education.

This volume gives voice to the views and experiences of researchers, lecturers, administrative staff, teacher trainers and students with regard to the implementation of English-medium instruction in a public university based in the north-east of Italy.

The Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri was one of the most significant visual artists of the late twentieth century. This volume introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader audience and positions Ghirri more firmly within global artistic debates, breaking new ground by approaching Ghirri's oeuvre from interdisciplinary perspectives.

This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema explores key trends over the past 25 years, including documentary and avant-garde filmmaking, art house and popular cinema. The book seeks to highlight the continuities, mutual influences and common contexts that inform, shape and inspire filmmaking in Greece today.

The most recent member-state of the European Union, Croatia, has been shaped by a culture of war commemoration since the Homeland War of the 1990s that secured independence. These commemorative practices, including museums, memoirs and satirical cartoons, are the subject of study in this book, offering insights into Croatia's place in Europe today.

It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. In this title, the intellectual and empirical reasoning presented, however, gives rise to scepticism with respect to this understanding of the sound of the vowel.

This interdisciplinary collection draws from the fields of art, literature, social history, demography and legal history, and both architectural and landscape history. Essays employ a range of methodologies and materials - visual, statistical, archival and literary - to illustrate the richness of the primary sources for studying death in Scotland.

Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia is unquestionably the best-known Orthodox theologian in the Western world today. This work is designed to demonstrate the spread of his own interests and concerns and range from the Desert Fathers to modern church dialogue, from patristics to church music, from the Philokalia to human 'priesthood'.

This collection of essays brings to the fore some of the most pressing concerns in the training of translators and interpreters, including the interconnections between didactics and research, advances in cognitive processes, quality assessment and socio-professional issues in translation and interpreting training.

This book examines contemporary Anglophone Cameroon poetry and its engagement with the environment. It explores different aspects in the field of ecoculture, hinged on questions of environmental degradation, the inextricable relationship between nature and culture as well as the intersection between history, politics, ethics and the environment.

Of the many commemorations of World War I, little was made of the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of London that passed South Tyrol from Austria to Italy in April 1915. This volume explores the dynamic effects of South Tyrol's geographical, political and cultural history since 1915 and considers similar struggles of other regions in Europe.

Vocational Education has been, and still is, an active player in the tensions between labor and citizen rights, economic and social and local development, skilling the workforce and educating the adult population. This book provides examples of practices of resistance and emancipation.

This collective volume explores the 'spatial turn' in literary and cultural studies and brings together studies of contemporary English-speaking literature that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts. Themes include abjection, espionage, discipline, post-human identities, urban geographies, dystopia and coercive medical practices.

Leopardi's Zibaldone has been considered to be a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions lacking coherence and consistency. This book shows that such a perceived lack of coherence is merely illusory, arguing that the Zibaldone establishes Leopardi as one of the most original and radical thinkers of the nineteenth century.

Like Mookie in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, translators are at the nexus between cultures, making difficult decisions with sometimes dramatic consequences. Drawing on the fields of translation studies, sociolinguistics and film studies, this book analyses the French subtitling of African American English in films from the USA.

This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes. Ranging from The Battle of Maldon to The Canterbury Tales, it provides a range of fascinating insights into the great subjects of English literature in the medieval period.

This volume collects works on the most relevant disciplines in translation. They are all written in English or French, and are grouped into four sections that illustrate the type of interdisciplinary approach adopted in each of the areas under study: translation theory and methodology, specialised translation, literary translation and other areas.

This is a book of conversations with researchers working across Europe, the USA and Africa. It aims to illuminate the lived reality of educational research on a wide variety of topics, including family life in rural South Africa, support for self-harming students in the UK, character development in the USA and Korea, educational leadership in the UK and China, philosophical analysis of education policy, and much more. The book is for and about researchers and is built around a set of conversations with the author - a fellow researcher. Researchers work at the frontiers of our knowledge and understanding of the world, and frontiers can be dangerous places. How are the researchers' personal qualities - virtues such as courage, honesty and kindness - tested and exemplified in their work? The conversations presented here explore the experience of research and ask what qualities are needed, or wished for, in order to successfully face its challenges. There are many books that include lists of what to do and what not to do when carrying out research. Here, in contrast, we find out what really happens and why - and what it takes to keep going.

The book deals with different perspectives on regional short story, modernism and space relation, to understand how space and landscape influenced narrative structures and are represented in some of them, mainly in short fiction. It draws attention to the importance of regionalist short prose narratives from a comparative literary perspective.

The book pursues an in-depth investigation of the process whereby female identity was performatively negotiated on the Restoration stage by women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and of how a new articulation of social space contributed to the formation of a potentially emancipatory sense of gendered selfhood.

Historians and Archivists, after a meeting held in Moscow in 2006, analyse in this book the contempt, damage and destruction that documentation usually suffers from revolutions. It is devoted special attention to the French Revolution, the 19th century upheavals, the Russian Revolution and the evolution and end of Soviet period.

This book questions the artistic, aesthetic, political and ethical legacy of E. M. Forster's novels. It covers Forster's literary, cinematic and musical legacies across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and deal with many authors, such as Melville, Isherwood, Hollinghurst and Kureishi.

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 are: Vasily Aksyonov, Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, Edward Limonov, and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi.

This book provides guidance for teaching staff in Modern Languages in preparing students for using their language skills in and out of the classroom. Drawing on pedagogical, psychological and language-specific concepts of learning, the book offers ways of helping students transition from school to university to residence abroad, and beyond.

The virtuous Roman matron Lucretia killed herself in 509 b. C. Her death is considered the cause of the Roman revolt against the Tarquins and the mainspring of the passage from the monarchic to the republican age. It is a myth about private and public dimensions: it tells about woman and revolution. Its themes, permanent features and variations are infinite. The metamorphoses of Lucretia are innumerable. Nonetheless, she has always preserved her essence and profound meaning, thus confirming her strength and her being a true myth. Lucretia has crossed the centuries, she has been told, painted and sung by artists from 509 b. C. until today. She reached the Eighteenth Century, Italy, Great Britain and Germany and she met three great authors: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. They chose her and decided to tell her story, each in his own peculiar manner. Goldoni wrote a dramma giocoso in musica, Lugrezia Romana in Costantinopoli, Richardson a novel, Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady and Lessing a burgerliches Trauerspiel entitled Emilia Galotti. One myth, three authors, three different literary genres: this work would like to investigate and verify the connection among them and the meaning of it. The comparative analysis of the metamorphoses of Lucretia will disclose new concepts of private and public, of woman and revolution, sprung from an old but perpetual reviving myth.

What is a memory of the future? This book speculates on the connections between memory and futurity in a variety of fields, including counter-histories, women's studies, science fiction, art and design, technology, philosophy and politics. Topics include technology and fashion, reinventions of monetary exchange and memories of adolescence.