Books published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This book explores the origins of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu in an earlier, unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil. Using close readings of early unpublished versions of the work, the author offers a further elucidation of the meaning of this rich and complex novel and its evolution into a modernist work.

The contributors to this book include scholars, musicians, theologians, medical practitioners, informed listeners and practitioners in religious traditions. It includes case study material, empirical studies, philosophical, theological and theoretical contributions along with accounts from lived experience of the spirituality in Tavener's music.

This collection analyzes scholarship on global Germany since 1998, assessing its impact on German historiography and diaspora studies. It reveals that Germany's colonial presence overseas forged links to landscapes, traditions, and communities beyond Europe that continue to modify the cultural boundaries of Germanness into the present day.

Proposes that a new literary genre emerged from the crucible of the Great Famine, that is, the Irish Famine travelogue. Judd invites us to consider Famine-era travel narratives as comprising a unique subgenre within the larger discursive field of travel literature.

This book investigates twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literatures in translation. Covering English-, French- and Spanish-language texts, the book applies Glissantian relational thinking to the study of translation and literary circulation, challenging core-periphery models in favour of alternative pathways of cultural exchange.

We live in an era of global anxiety, so it's no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our material circumstances. This book explores the immanence-transcendence problem in works of French, German, Italian, and Russian literature and philosophy, with the aim of helping us navigate our global future.

Pathology. Psychosis. Schizophrenia. These words often prove inseparable from the life and work of twentieth-century German-language writer Robert Walser. This book takes Walser's schizophrenia diagnosis as a point of departure and provides a cognitive study of his writing, suggesting that his unique prose is rooted in uncommon cognition.

Presents hard evidence from hundreds of self-identifying Buddhists in the UK, that the diversity of Buddhists, previously described in terms of ethnic dichotomy, is better explained in terms of Psychological Type preferences.

This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of an art form that is crucial to the understanding of Italian contemporary society: political music from the 1960s to today. Using cultural studies, digital humanities and literary analysis, this book analyses a corpus of political music to offer insights into the sociolinguistic aspects of Italian.

This book proposes a radically new interpretation of the Divine Comedy's encyclopedism by focusing on Dante's work in light of the medieval imago mundi tradition. By bringing attention to Latin Platonism and twelfth-century authors, the work provides compelling new readings and provocative insights into key figures (e.g. Ulysses).

The humanities can contribute to an understanding of a fundamental aspect of human life: work. This cross-disciplinary volume explores how German literature has grappled with understanding work in times of disruptive change brought about by industrialization, rapid technological advances, and globalization.

How can we best use mobile technology to promote learning? How can we personalise our assessment of learning remotely? This book explores these questions and more, considering strategies for using mobile devices for more personalised teaching

This book examines the space of meeting between two religions that open up when there are honest attempts at interreligious learning. Taking Abhishiktananda and Bede Griffiths as examplars and the meeting between Advaita Vedanta and Christianity, the nature of the theological movements within are identified and the resultant hybridities assessed.

This new and expanded edition of William Kingston's Interrogating Irish Policies looks at the Irish political system with an emphasis on innovation and history.

This book provides a solid basis for interreligious pedagogy and didactics. Authentic interreligious cooperation begins by promoting intra- and inter-religious self-confidence and understanding. Approaches and attitudes are examined, including contingency sensibility to support the planning, management and evaluation of educational processes.

This reader explores the cross-disciplinary and transatlantic nature of the notion of culture, tracing how it emerged in the lively Anglo-American debate from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on the legacies of anthropology, the collection includes key primary and secondary texts useful for teaching and learning.

Data Rights Law 1.0 proposes a new concept -«data person». It defines «data rights» as rights derived from the «data person» and «data rights system» as the order based on «data rights». «Data rights law» is the formed out of the «data rights system». The book constructs a framework of «data rights-data rights system-data rights law».

This long overdue anthology captures the soul of MacIntyre's dramatic canon - its ethereal qualities, its extraordinary diversity, its emphasis on the poetic and on performance - in an extensive range of visual, journalistic and scholarly contributions from writers and theatre practitioners.

This edited volume investigates the role of digital communication in relation to linguistic diversity and language education in today's digitally networked world. The collection explores diverse digital venues in which language has different roles and functions, including education, politics, technology, media, and popular culture.

An original work, drawn from archival sources from across the Iberian peninsula. It examines the history of a dynamic and enterprising group of Irish women who migrated to Spain at the end of the fifteenth century, and throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in three distinct waves of migration.

This edited collection of essays brings together discussions on the role,representation and perception of women from the early 1900s to the present day.

How do we remember? And how can we do commemoration better? These questions are movingly explored by leading writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military veterans and scholars, illuminating a subject that is sensitive and sobering but which also speaks to our common humanity.

Pastoral Theology is taught in secondary schools through the Christian Religious Studies (CRS) syllabus. The primary focus of this book is to present the theological content in the curriculum of CRS. It presents the actual content designed by educationists using the Nigerian model. It proposes an African Theology of Education.

This book is a response to the important directive spirit of President Xi Jinping's message to the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2019 to "grasp the opportunities in the development of digitization, networks, and intelligence, and handle well the challenges of legal, security, and government governance in Big Data development."

Data Rights Law 1.0 proposes a new concept -'data person'. It defines 'data rights' as rights derived from the 'data person' and 'data rights system' as the order based on 'data rights'. 'Data rights law' is the formed out of the 'data rights system'. The book constructs a framework of 'data rights-data rights system-data rights law'.

This book explores the impact of neoliberal managerialism, framed by the language of bullshit, on higher education in Australia.

Comment allier inspiration, tradition, culture et invention, d'un cote, et grain de jouissance, Reel, rature et manuscrit, de l'autre. C'est ce que l'auteur met en pratique, utilisant les theories litteraire et psychanalytique a travers les manuscrits de Marcel Proust et d'Henry Bauchau.

Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015) engaged in an ambitious project to narrate Italy, the nation, its people and its pathologies. For Vassalli, chimeras are the myths that have repeatedly ensnared the nation, resulting in the social and political dysfunctions he denounces. This book represents the first study of Vassalli's works as a whole.