Books published by Peter Lang AG

The book describes the system of communist censorship in Poland in the years 1948-1958, as well as its effects on the development of literature. It is based on archival sources in the form of documents created by the Central Censorship Office. It is the first literary studies work which takes up the subject in such broad and systematic terms.

This is an anthology of literary, religious, and philosophical texts from the entire Middle Ages and the early modern age that address already quite explicitly religious toleration and even tolerance.

This book describes the tragedy of a border society that had no place inside the boundaries of a nation-state after 1945. The story takes place in Gdansk-Pomerania, which was a difficult homeland. The book presents the fate of Pomeranians and the residents of Gdansk who had to prove their national usefulness before they joined the post-war life.

The authors present their case studies and long-term research on leadership in global context. The book focuses on individual attributes and competencies of global leaders, the role of power and social influence in managing people, leaders of public institutions in critical situations and during changing organizational culture.

The legal situation of whistleblowers has become an object of keen public interest in recent years. As practice shows, people who reveal irregularities in the workplace are exposed to the negative consequences of their actions. This monograph proposes a model of legal protection of such people, which could be applied in the Polish legal order.

Major aspects of this book consist of information disorder, fact-checking and fake news debates, algorithmic manipulation that harms democracy, spread of disinformation, populist rhetoric within the post-truth politics and digital media literacy.

Die landeskundliche Lehre und Forschung des chinesischen Germanistikstudiums weist heute noch an vielen Stellen Defizite auf. In dieser Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, ein kulturwissenschaftlich orientiertes Konzept zu entwickeln, um der Problemlage zu begegnen und einen Paradigmenwechsel zu bewirken.

The book provides a critical and historical inquiry into Kant's schematism chapter. It focuses on the meanings of the notion of schema before Kant, the precritical meaning of this notion, an analysis of the schematism chapter and its criticisms, and an overview of the legacy of Kant's schematism in philosophy and psychology.

This book is a collection of papers presented at Methods XVI in Tachikawa, Japan. Topics in the papers are about innovation, language change, corpus studies and atlas. Authors from different parts of the world made their contributions.

The monograph attempts to examine the relationship between collective memory and oral texts. The material basis for this presentation consists of folklore oral texts, both prosaic and poetic, different as regards their genres (fairy tales, fables, recollections, traditions, legends, proverbs, and songs).

Balkan Cinema is a result of a common cultural space shared by different nations. While operating under a blanket perspective on the region, Balkan filmmakers produced diverse narratives creatively responding to their situation. This volume features how films entangled these issues including wars, national identity, and cultural exchanges.

This work concerns the transmission of the Bible within Catholic and Orthodox tradition in rural communities from central Poland to Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine during the collapse of the USSR. The folk Bible is linked to Christian and Jewish Apocrypha, and biblical topics mingle with local legends and expressions of identity.

This book examines literary representations of war, flood and earthquakes in twentieth and twenty-first century Japan using trauma as a focus. The book focuses mainly on poetry but also analyzing various prose works. This topic has been explored previously by scholars of European literature but rarely in studies of modern Japanese literature.

This book presents new research assumptions aiming at a significant expansion of a typical, common paradigm of law sciences and focuses on the process of law-making, an important subject of interest in broadly understood legal sciences. The multiplicity of points of view, allows the authors to present a multi-faceted image of law-making processes.

The present book offers an interpretation of social life developed during a century of sociological thought at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. It was the authors' intention to combine a historical perspective (the genesis of thoughts and concepts) with a detailed discussion of ideas (theoretical premises).

The book discusses the relation between translation and power and how it shapes what one ultimately sees in translated texts.

Untersuchung des gesetzlichen Insolvenzschutzes betrieblicher Altersversorgung durch den Pensions-Sicherungs-Verein und Skizzierung der Rechtsfolgen in der Unternehmensinsolvenz. Darstellung von Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten privatvertraglicher Insolvenzsicherungsmechanismen wie Contractual Trust Arrangements.

This study updates reader-response criticism as the foundation of aesthetic reading in the classroom by bringing it in line with cognitive theories in literary studies and linguistics. Such a framework facilitates a consistent theoretical approach to autobiographical comics.