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Verlag Peter Lang Saint Augustin Et La Bible: Actes Du Colloque de l'Université Paul Verlaine-Metz- (7-8 Avril 2005)
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Verlag Peter Lang Ford Madox Ford: Vision, Visuality and Writing
This book spans the most significant phases of Ford’s literary production, from his art criticism to his main modernist novels: The Good Soldier, Parade’s End, The Rash Act and Henry for Hugh. The aim is to explore the uncharted territory of Ford’s interest in the scopic field, claiming that his investigation of the optical unconscious is his most original contribution to the modernist concern for the stream of consciousness. This is the first in-depth study of Ford’s interest in the gaze and how it is related to writing, painting, music, sculpture, visual technologies and forms of popular entertainment. Undermining the clichéd critical vision of Ford as the last Pre-Raphaelite or proto-Futurist, this study analyses Ford’s fascination with the visual avant-garde and his response to the revolution of photography and (proto-) cinematographic forms from the specific angle of the scopic drive. Part history, part theoretical discussion embedded in the close reading of the texts, this book is also concerned with Ford as a great stylist whose writing strives to project an image of itself and its structures in the reader’s eye. Drawing inspiration from psychoanalysis and art criticism, the author capitalises on the theories of Jacques Lacan, Rosalind Krauss, Hal Foster, Jonathan Crary, and Norman Bryson to disclose the fascinating and baffling universe of Ford’s gaze. This is a revised and extended English translation of the original book Ford Madox Ford: Visione/visualità e scrittura.
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Verlag Peter Lang Les Lois Du Sens: La Sémantique Marriste
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Verlag Peter Lang L'Expatrié Un Acteur Social de la Mobilité Internationale: Cadres Entre La Suisse Et La France
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Verlag Peter Lang A Changing Role for the Composer in Society: A Study of the Historical Background and Current Methodologies of Creative Music-Making
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Verlag Peter Lang Welfare Peripheries: the Development of Welfare States in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe
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Verlag Peter Lang Langues À l'École: Quelle Politique Pour Quelle Suisse ?: Analyse Du Débat Public Sur l'Enseignement Des Langues À l'École Obligatoire
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Verlag Peter Lang Morphoaccentologie Et Processus d'Affixation de l'Anglais
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Verlag Peter Lang Pneumatologie in Der Alten Kirche
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Verlag Peter Lang Der Verschleierte Geist: Zen-Betrachtungen Des Chinesischen Moenchs-Philosophen Zibo Zhenke
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Verlag Peter Lang The Russians on Athos
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Verlag Peter Lang Assessing English for Academic Purposes
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Verlag Peter Lang Psychodynamisches Stoerungsbild Und Erzaehlter Konflikt: Narrative Analyse ALS Diagnostische Urteilsbildung
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Verlag Peter Lang Teoría E Interpretación del Cuento: 2a Edición, Revisada
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Verlag Peter Lang Figures of Madness in Saul Bellow's Longer Fiction
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Verlag Peter Lang Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues
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Verlag Peter Lang Der Neue Taiwanische Film Der 80er Jahre
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Verlag Peter Lang Margery Kempe: A Study in English Feminism
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Verlag Peter Lang Des Îles En Archipel...: Flottements Autour Du Thème Insulaire En Hommage À Carminella Biondi
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Verlag Peter Lang Corpora for University Language Teachers
This volume is made up of 17 chapters which have developed out of papers and workshop sessions presented at the event entitled «Corpora: Seminar and Workshops», held at the University of Padua, March 29-31, 2007. It maintains the straightforward, practical approach which characterized that event, meant as an introduction to the use of corpora even for novices. At the same time it goes into a wide range of different applications for corpora in language teaching and language research in higher education. One of these involves the creation and use of learner corpora. Another application involves corpus-assisted research into political discourse in the media. Language for special purposes is also focussed on as a research topic, an academic discipline, and language to be translated. Multimodal corpora are also considered. Proposals are made for corpus-based research into the language of films, and into translation (and mediation) universals. A corpus-based study of text complexity in reading tests is also presented. Large-scale corpora commercially available are also discussed. An online module for translator training is presented, as is an Internet-accessible corpus of Old English poetry.
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Verlag Peter Lang The Anthology in Portugal: Literature, Translation and the Margins
Following on from Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta’s The Anthology in Portugal: A New Approach to the History of Portuguese Literature (2007), these new essays explore further the issues of reception, translation and canonicity. The three authors have produced complementary studies that focus on the role of anthologies in promoting international literary exchange, evaluate the relationship between the literary canon and literature at the margins, and flag up the importance of cover art in conditioning reader expectations. The first part of the book examines both collections of translated short stories considered suitable for children, even if originally written for an adult readership, and, in contrast, high-quality anthologies for older readers, produced in the context of a transnational publishing franchise. The second section offers a thorough analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s reception in Portugal, including where, how and by whom he was disseminated. The history of Poe in Portuguese also sheds valuable light on the broader history of translation and translation anthologies in Portugal. The final part of the volume charts mystery and detective stories selected and translated for Portuguese anthologies and magazines by the leading cultural mediators of the 1940s and 1950s, with an assessment of their contribution to literature in Portugal.
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Verlag Peter Lang Migration, Multiculturalism and Language Maintenance in Australia: Polish Migration to Melbourne in the 1980s
The author sets out to examine migration movements to Australia and the role of successive immigration legislation: from the notorious White Australia Policy through to the contemporary multicultural agenda. Her detailed case study sheds new light on the experiences of Polish migrants of the 1980s and their children in Melbourne. The story of successive waves of migration – particularly following the Second World War – and the influence of these on multicultural Australia provide the context of this study. Of particular interest is the relationship between the policy of multiculturalism and language maintenance among first generation Polish migrants and their children (the second generation). In her empirical study of language maintenance, the author analyses ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors for migration from Poland to Australia. She examines the costs of migration; Polish migrants’ experiences of Australia’s multicultural policy; an evaluation of parents’ migration by their children; re-migration to Poland; interaction between Polish migrants and Australian-born people; and the influence of domains such as the home, institutions of learning, the Polish Catholic Church, the media and other organisations and spheres of Polish cultural activity.
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Verlag Peter Lang Hochdeutsch Im Kindergarten?: Eine Empirische Studie Zum Fruehen Hochdeutscherwerb in Der Deutschschweiz
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Verlag Peter Lang Discours, Diachronie, Stylistique Du Français: Etudes En Hommage À Bernard Combettes
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Verlag Peter Lang Michel Houellebecq: Author of our Times
Michel Houellebecq is a French author whose profile in the English-speaking world is unusually high. He is an author who has put the humour back into the Absurd, without losing any of the awareness of the bleakness of the human condition. Undoubtedly one of the most trenchant satirists of our time, he deflates the projected utopias that we imagine protect us from the ills that beset us. More than many other novelists, his work is a reflection of the social and economic reality of life in a post-industrial society. Houellebecq shows a world of violence and tension, a world where people find it hard to be at ease, so that life becomes a process of disease. This book foregrounds Houellebecq’s scrutiny of our various attempts to confront and transcend the fundamental reality of the human condition, in particular the horror of death.
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Verlag Peter Lang Le Langage Préfabriqué: Formes, Fonctions Et Fréquences En Français Parlé L2 Et L1
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Verlag Peter Lang L'Ecole de la Troisième République En Questions: Débats Et Controverses Dans Le Dictionnaire de Pédagogie de Ferdinand Buisson
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Verlag Peter Lang 1955-2005: Emil Staiger Und «Die Kunst Der Interpretation» Heute
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Verlag Peter Lang Un Destin de Femme - Martha Musil: L'Amante, l'Épouse, La Soeur
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Verlag Peter Lang Iliade: Langue, Récit, Écriture: L'Épopée Homérique Et l'Invention de la Citoyenneté
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Verlag Peter Lang John Wilmot, comte de Rochester (1647-1680) : Œuvres- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680): Collected Works: Edition bilingue et critique, traduction par Florence Lautel-Ribstein- Bilingual Edition and Translation by Florence Lautel-R
Première édition bilingue anglo-française de l’œuvre de John Wilmot, comte de Rochester (1647-1680), l’ouvrage qui offre un appareil critique a pour objectif de faire connaître le poète au public français tout en poursuivant l’entreprise de la réhabilitation du « méchant comte » commencée outre-Manche il y a un demi-siècle. Une longue introduction insiste sur l’environnement littéraire et philosophique du poète où les sources du mouvement européen du libertinage de pensée prennent toute leur place. Florence Lautel-Ribstein propose en outre une réflexion approfondie sur l’approche traductive de textes parfois très complexes en raison de leur caractère poétique, de leur dimension ontologique ou de leur registre parodique. Plus de quatre-vingt textes lyriques, satiriques, philosophiques ainsi qu’une tragédie forment le corpus rochesterien à la paternité quasi certaine. Ils sont présentés ici avec leur traduction en regard. Chaque œuvre est accompagnée de l’historique de la publication de ses premières versions manuscrites ou imprimées, de notes textuelles et explicatives abondantes, ainsi que d’un commentaire qui, dans certains cas, est le premier du genre. L’introduction ainsi que les notices, notes et commentaires de cette édition sont rédigés en français. The introduction to this edition, as well as the annotations and commentaries, are written in French.
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Verlag Peter Lang Protest and Prayer: Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld and Orthodox Jewish Responses in Britain to the Nazi Persecution of Europe's Jews 1942-1945
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Verlag Peter Lang Stepping Queerly?: Discourses in Dance Education for Boys in Late 20th-Century Finland
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Verlag Peter Lang L'ecriture Du Feminin Chez Zola Et Dans La Fiction Naturaliste Writing the Feminine in Zola and Naturalist Fiction
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Verlag Peter Lang Postcolonial Violence, Culture and Identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles
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Verlag Peter Lang German-Irish Corporate Relationships: The Cultural Dimension
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