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Verlag Peter Lang Futures of Education: Essays from an Interdisciplinary Symposium
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Verlag Peter Lang Journal Des Malers Ludwig York Choris: Herausgegeben Und Kommentiert Von Niklaus R. Schweizer
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Verlag Peter Lang Erzaehltechnik Und Verfremdung: Die Montagetechnik Und Perspektivierung in Alfred Doeblin, «Berlin Alexanderplatz» Und Franz Kafka, «Der Verschollene»
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Verlag Peter Lang Countering Terrorist Financing: The practitioner’s point of view
Terrorists need money to commit acts of violence and sustain their operations. Measures to combat terrorism therefore aim to prevent terrorists from raising, moving and using funds or other assets. The effectiveness – and the fairness – of these measures were considered at the second ‘Giessbach’ seminar on counter-terrorist financing (CTF) organised by the Basel Institute on Governance in October 2008. This book contains essays presented at the seminar written by practitioners and academics with extensive experience in the field of CTF. The authors offer a diversity of views on the domestic, regional and international initiatives aimed at detecting terrorist funds in the financial system, preventing terrorists from moving their money via alternative financial channels and facilitating the recovery of terrorist assets. The editors conclude with in-sights into the ongoing challenge of making CTF measures both effective and legally sustainable in the lead-up to Giessbach III in December 2009.
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Verlag Peter Lang Wendepunkte - Tournants: Beitraege Zur Klaus-Mann-Tagung Aus Anlass Seines 100. Geburtstages, Sanary-Sur-Mer 2006
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Verlag Peter Lang Le Rap Français: Esthétique Et Poétique Des Textes (1990-1995)
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Verlag Peter Lang Researching Language Teaching and Learning: An Integration of Practice and Theory
Never in the recent history of foreign language education have we seen so much earnest concern for the philosophies which underlie research methods. The primary force behind this concern has been the rise of a socio-cultural paradigm in foreign language education from which new ways of integrating teaching theory and practice are emerging. All but one of the papers collected in this volume were presented and discussed at the international seminar Understanding the Language Classroom and New Directions for Language Teaching Research held in Kobe, Japan, from 14 to 17 March 2007. The volume has reframed research accounts of classroom and learner issues by clarifying the powerful connections between philosophically different families of both recently developed and conventional research practices: Exploratory Practice, Action Research, Narrative Inquiry, Learner Autonomy, and Strategy-based Language Learning.
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Verlag Peter Lang Entre Le Musée Et Le Marché: Heinrich Angst: Collectionneur, Marchand Et Premier Directeur Du Musée National Suisse
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Verlag Peter Lang L'Afrique Est À Construire: La Responsabilité Spirituelle
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Verlag Peter Lang Les Espaces Frontaliers: Laboratoires de la Citoyenneté Européenne
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Verlag Peter Lang French and francophone women facing war- Les femmes face à la guerre
Historical and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in women’s roles in and approaches to war. In times of conflict, French and francophone women have made crucial contributions in aid of the patrie, but wars have also set women against the governing powers, frequently forcing them to choose between their concerns as women, and the economic and social demands of their belligerent nations. This volume, the proceedings of the 9th UK Women in French conference entitled ‘Les femmes et la guerre’, brings together scholars from different academic disciplines – history, sociology, politics, literary criticism and gender studies – who explore the impact of war upon women in French and francophone societies. Les critiques littéraires et les historiens s’intéressent de plus en plus aux rôles des femmes pendant les périodes de guerre. Les femmes françaises et francophones ont, par leurs actions cruciales, aidé la patrie en temps de guerre ; cependant, les conflits ont également opposé les femmes à leur gouvernement, en les obligeant souvent à choisir entre leurs intérêts en tant que femmes et les exigences économiques et sociales de leur pays belligérant. Ce volume, reproduisant les actes du 9e colloque britannique organisé par « Women in French », intitulé « Les femmes et la guerre », rassemble des spécialistes de diverses disciplines – histoire, sociologie, sciences politiques, critique littéraire et études de genre – pour analyser les effets de la guerre sur les femmes en France et dans les pays francophones.
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Verlag Peter Lang Tackling the Intractable: Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Middle East Peace
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Verlag Peter Lang Emergence Des Sciences de l'Éducation En Suisse À La Croisée de Traditions Académiques Contrastées: Fin Du 19 E - Première Moitié Du 20 E Siècle
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Verlag Peter Lang Visions Croisées Franco-Allemandes de la Première Guerre Mondiale: Etude de Deux Quotidiens: La Metzer Zeitung Et l'Est Républicain
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Verlag Peter Lang La Civilisation Et Ses Représentations: Etude d'Une Revue, Le Français Dans Le Monde (1961-1976)
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Verlag Peter Lang «Lieber Gott, Bitte Hilf Mir. Ich Sterbe Dir Sonst Weg.»: Analyse Spaetmoderner Religiositaet Am Beispiel Von Frei Formulierten Gebetsanliegen Und Fuerbitten
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Verlag Peter Lang The Politics of Senegambian Integration, 1958-1994
This study focuses on the experience in state-managed cooperation and integration between The Gambia and Senegal. Specifically, it examines the nexus between national politics in The Gambia and inter-state cooperation in Senegambia; that is, the impact and implications of politics in The Gambia on the process of cooperation with Senegal in functional areas. The Senegambia case is a microcosm of the African dilemma of reconciling the ideological imperative of African unity and regional integration, recently enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and the primordial reality of protecting national statehood and particularistic interests. The experience is instructive in many ways. It is indicative of the problems that arise in any scheme to promote integration between countries with distinctly different colonial heritages. The Senegambia case demonstrates that integration is more problematic after statehood has been achieved, if only because the rewards of statehood are more immediate whereas those of integration and unity are more distant. Then also this case demonstrates that integration can be perceived as a threat to national sovereignty by one or both parties; in fact, sovereignty is often very fragile in these states and is jealously guarded. Finally, the experience reveals the complexities and intricacies of achieving union between African states and demonstrates the tension between constructing a national political state and responding to the demands of inter-national economic integration.
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Verlag Peter Lang Proust’s Imaginary Museum: Reproductions and Reproduction in "À la recherche du temps perdu"
This study of Marcel Proust’s creative imagination examines an aspect of the novel that has hitherto been largely overlooked: the author’s dependence on secondary visual sources. Proust made constant use of reproductions – photographs, engravings, postcards, illustrations in books – as sources of reference and as narrative devices in their own right. Furthermore, he consistently chose to use reproductions in preference to originals, whether people, places or works of art. Bringing together for the first time a mass of factual information documenting Proust’s use of second-hand images, the author argues that reproductions play a key role in the work’s complex, multi-layered structure. Rather than being hampered by their limitations, Proust took advantage of their distancing effect to free his imagination and to insert new layers of meaning into his narrative.
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Verlag Peter Lang What is a Woman to Do?: A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890
This anthology contributes to a scholarly understanding of the aesthetics and economics of female artistic labour in the Victorian period. It maps out the evolution of the Woman Question in a number of areas, including the status and suitability of artistic professions for women, their engagement with new forms of work and their changing relationship to the public sphere. The wealth of material gathered here – from autobiographies, conduct manuals, diaries, periodical articles, prefaces and travelogues – traces the extensive debate on women’s art, feminism and economics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Combining for the first time nineteenth-century criticism on literature and the visual arts, performance and craftsmanship, the selected material reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from idleness to serious occupation. The distinctive primary sources explore the impact of artistic labour upon perceptions of feminine sensibility and aesthetics, the conflicting views of women towards the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they encompassed vocations, trades and professions, and the complex relationship between paid labour and female fame and notoriety.
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Verlag Peter Lang Eastern Luminaries Disclosed to Western Eyes: A Critical Evaluation of the Translations of the "Mu‘allaqāt" into English and French (1782-2000)
This book studies and evaluates the different translations of the Mu‘allaqāt, seven canonical pre-Islamic odes, from Arabic into English and French. First, it introduces the Mu‘allaqāt and the chief controversies related to their study in both Eastern and Western scholarship. It then presents the translators of the Mu‘allaqāt and their translations and closes with two typologies of the translations and translators presented. A number of criteria for the evaluation of translations of poetry are developed. The book provides a comparative study of the English and French translations of the Mu‘allaqāt with a focus on a number of communicative priorities in the source text, based on stylistic devices that require a sound awareness of the culture of pre-Islamic Arabia, the main setting of the Mu‘allaqāt. The author assesses the reliability of the criteria of evaluation and the translatability of the Mu‘allaqāt as a text that is remote from its translators in time, in place, and with respect to literary tradition.
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Verlag Peter Lang Wirklichkeit Und Literatur: Strategien Dokumentarischen Schreibens in Der Weimarer Republik
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Verlag Peter Lang Globalization, Sport and Corporate Nationalism: The New Cultural Economy of the New Zealand All Blacks
Although New Zealand exists as a small (pop. 4.3 million), peripheral nation in the global economy, it offers a unique site through which to examine the complex, but uneven, interplay between global forces and long-standing national traditions and cultural identities. This book examines the profound impact of globalization on the national sport of rugby and New Zealand’s iconic team, the All Blacks. Since 1995, the national sport of rugby has undergone significant change, most notably due to the New Zealand Rugby Union’s lucrative and ongoing corporate partnerships with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and global sportswear giant Adidas. The authors explore these significant developments and pressures alongside the resulting tensions and contradictions that have emerged as the All Blacks, and other aspects of national heritage and indigenous identity, have been steadily incorporated into a global promotional culture. Following recent research in cultural studies, they highlight the intensive, but contested, commodification of the All Blacks to illuminate the ongoing transformation of rugby in New Zealand by corporate imperatives and the imaginations of marketers, most notably through the production of a complex discourse of corporate nationalism within Adidas’s evolving local and global advertising campaigns.
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Verlag Peter Lang Light That Dances in the Mind: Photographs and Memory in the Writings of E. M. Forster and His Contemporaries
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Verlag Peter Lang Witness to Pain: Essays on the Translation of Pain into Art
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Verlag Peter Lang Waugh without End: New Trends in Evelyn Waugh Studies
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Verlag Peter Lang Self-Portraits: Subjectivity in the Works of Vera Brittain
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Verlag Peter Lang Between Cross and Class: Comparative Histories of Christian Labour in Europe 1840-2000
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Verlag Peter Lang Les Français Au Service de la Société Des Nations
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Verlag Peter Lang Roberti Crikeladensis Defloratio Naturalis Historie Plinii Secundi
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Verlag Peter Lang Exploring Evil
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Verlag Peter Lang Politiques Et Stratégies Éducatives: Termes de l'Échange Et Nouveaux Enjeux Nord-Sud
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Verlag Peter Lang L'Expérience Chez Aristote: Aux Confins Des Connaissances Sensible Et Intellectuelle En Perspective Aristotélicienne
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Verlag Peter Lang Aspects of Diaspora: Studies on North American Chinese Writers
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Verlag Peter Lang De La Competence a La Dynamique Interculturelles
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Verlag Peter Lang Intermediate French for Diplomats
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Verlag Peter Lang Zola: The History of Capitalism
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Verlag Peter Lang Los Aires Fijos: Edición Crítica de José Cebrián
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Verlag Peter Lang La Vraie Patrie, c'Est La Lumière¿: Correspondance Entre Annette Kolb Et Romain Rolland (1915-1936)- Documents Réunis Par Anne-Marie Saint-Gille
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Verlag Peter Lang Errance Et Points de Repère Chez Wim Wenders
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Verlag Peter Lang Visions of Empire and Other Imaginings: Cinema, Ireland and India 1910-1962
This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Junior Scholars book award for Cultural Studies in English, 2012 Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. The experiences of British colonialism in Ireland and India are marked by many commonalities, not least in terms of colonial and indigenous imaginings of the relationships between colony or former colony and imperial metropolis. Cinematic representations of Ireland and India display several parallels in their expressions and contestations of visions of Empire and national identity. This book offers a critical approach to the study of Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of such filmic visions, yielding insights into the operations of colonial, nationalist and postcolonial discourse. Drawing on postcolonial and cultural theory and employing Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism, the author engages in close readings of a broad range of metropolitan and indigenous films spanning an approximately fifty-year period, exploring the complex relationships between cinema, colonialism, nationalism and postcolonialism and examining their role in the (re)construction of Irish and Indian identities.
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Verlag Peter Lang Horace in Dialogue: Bakhtinian Readings in the "Satires"
Horace’s Satires have a distinctly dialogic quality – not for nothing does Horace himself choose to call these poems sermones, ‘conversations’. Even when formally presented as monologues, the Satires seem to be speeches actively addressed to their recipients, cognisant of their audiences, and full of the ‘voices’ of others. This book applies theories on dialogue by the twentieth-century Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin to Horace’s Satires. Bakhtinian key concepts such as polyphony, heteroglossia, addressivity and authoritative discourse are investigated and found to be useful in understanding Horace’s work. Far from getting bogged down in theory, however, this is a book which uses some of Bakhtin’s ideas to tease out fresh insights into Horace’s Satires. The author reads Horace’s poems as ‘little dramas’ – interactions between speakers, interlocutors, addressees, and audiences. What is Horace’s real motive for lecturing on miserly greed in his first satire? Who is the modern Hollywood star whom Horace most closely resembled? What is Horace doing while Damasippus rattles on, recounting the words of his guru Stertinius, in Satires 2.3? The answers to these and other questions are suggested in this book.
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Verlag Peter Lang Autonomy and Food Biotechnology in Theological Ethics
What does ‘autonomy’ mean from a Christian perspective? What could a Christian environmental ethics bring to the debate about genetically modified food? This book investigates conflicting claims in the public realm about food biotechnology. It critically evaluates the contribution such technologies make to sustainable agricultural production and environmental stewardship. Challenging the received wisdom in popular environmental theology, the book defends the role of the human person as steward of creation and presents a human-centred Christian environmental ethics rooted in the Kantian tradition of moral philosophy. From this vantage point the author critiques the partiality of many contemporary environmental theologies, which argue for a return to the technological simplicity of an idealised past, or emphasise virtue while taking little account of the role that institutional issues play in framing and defining policy and good practice. In this context the author examines whether or not, under current conditions, transgenic food can contribute to sustainable agricultural production.
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Verlag Peter Lang Textual Healing: Studies in Medieval English Medical, Scientific and Technical Texts
The studies presented in this volume concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical varieties of early English used in a wide range of medieval manuscripts. As the growing body of research published in recent years has shown, analysing the language of specialised texts is an opportunity to obtain access to the early history and vernacularisation of learned writing styles. It is an area of study in which all the contributors have considerable expertise, which affords them to present data findings while discussing important methodological issues. In addition, in most cases data derive from specially-designed ‘second-generation’ corpora, reflecting state-of-the-art approaches to historical linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Theoretical issues concerning the digital edition of medical and scientific texts, their role in social network analysis, and their value in the identification of dialectal specific traits are highlighted by the authors.
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Verlag Peter Lang The Beautiful and the Monstrous: Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture
The composition of aesthetic beauty and its necessary correlation with the counterparts of ugliness and monstrosity have been the primary concerns of artists and philosophers through the ages. This collection of articles, selected from the proceedings of a conference on the theme of The Beautiful and the Monstrous that took place at Cambridge University in April 2008, seeks to reassess conceptualizations and representations of beauty and monstrosity and offers a timely critical evaluation of the relationship between the two. By means of a variety of theoretical approaches and methodologies, the authors provide rigorous analyses of philosophical and artistic expression from medieval to contemporary literature, thought and culture from France and across the French-speaking world. Throughout, they seek to challenge traditional approaches by addressing a diverse range of questions that relate to the beautiful and the monstrous: from formal, metaphysical and ethical considerations of aesthetics, to the threat of the monstrous in realms of psychoanalysis and politics; from figures of beauty and monstrosity as prescriptive social and identitarian categories, to transformations and metamorphoses which challenge the boundaries between human and monstrous other. Engaging with discourses on aesthetics, metaphysics, ethics, politics, psychoanalysis, feminism and postcolonialism, and discussing a spectrum of figures from angels to zombies, this collection offers a fresh range of perspectives on a fundamental transgeneric and transdisciplinary topic.
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Verlag Peter Lang Der Wald ALS Romantischer Topos: 5. Interdisziplinaeres Symposion Der Hochschule Fuer Musik Und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt Am Main 2007
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