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The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC) played a key role in developing apartheid theology, syncretizing Reformed theology with race-based ideology. This paradigm changed rapidly between 1986 and 1990 with the General Synod decision, Church and Society.The...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2024-10-07
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The book stems from the belief that scholars should actively engage with the areas of humanities significantly captured in the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Lebkowska applies literary-studies, anthropological, and cultural-studies methods to focus on three...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-09-16
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This book presents an innovative, scientifically grounded interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. It offers solutions to problems inherent in the text which have hitherto been ignored or inadequately addressed: problems relating to the flow of time, the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2024-09-06
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This book addresses the dynamics of normativity and resilience through the lens of translation. Engaging with both domestic and foreign cultural, social, economic, and ethical frameworks, the act of translation emerges as a dual force: it uncovers subtle and implicit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-08-02
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This study aims to uncover the traces of the celebrated Sweeney legend in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, Derek Mahon, Tom Mac Intyre, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Dermot Bolger, Paula Meehan, and Nuala Ní...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2024-06-19
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This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces focusing largely on the connections between Ireland and France across a range of political, cultural, historical,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-17
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«This is not the H. P. Lovecraft we thought we knew. Lovecraft is a great writer and a famously difficult thinker, and Pedersen’s provocative and highly original argument is that he is fundamentally a figure in the European Romantic tradition, with close affiliations to...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-14
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What is understood by judicial activism in different jurisdictions? Beyond a superficial agreement, are we talking about the same phenomenon across countries and systems (or over time), and to what extent? This book seeks to articulate a comparative perspective on...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-10
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Poetry has been around for nearly five millennia, yet never has it been more puzzling. The many reasons include technology, social media, and the blinding pace of contemporary life, leaving many students and readers in the dark. Just in time, this book comes to the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-07
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When the first issue of The Liberal was published on 10 October 1822, the periodical was largely dismissed by the British press as a political project conceived by well-known and controversial figures (L. Hunt, P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron, W. Hazlitt, and Mary Shelley)....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-05-21
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The book discusses the development of Polish studies on Greek antiquity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Junkiert scrutinizes the relationship of Polish intellectuals with their predecessors in this field in France and the German-speaking culture.The book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-05-03
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Das Internet hat sich von einem Medium der Kommunikation, Wissensvermittlung und Informationssuche zu einem Instrument entwickelt, das die Öffentlichkeit sowohl positiv als auch negativ beeinflussen kann. Neben den Mainstream-Webseiten existieren auch solche, die von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-04-29
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«A piercing critique of imperial culture and climate doomism. Alberro’s Terrestrial Ecotopias is a compelling and penetrating corrective, sketching an ecology of hope beyond the Capitalocene.»
(Jason W. Moore, author, Capitalism in the Web of Life)
«Utopia is here and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-24
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«This relevant, clearly defined study isn’t constricted by its primary focus on late nineteenth-century American utopias, written when inequality flourished. Morris enriches this focus with chronological comparisons to well-known and lesser-known American utopias in...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-24
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In dieser Studie wird erstmals die kulturelle Prägung von Metaphern in religiösen Texten einer mehrsprachigen und multikulturellen Region analysiert. Der Autor vergleicht hierzu deutsche und polnische Kirchenlieder des Gesangbuchs Weg zum Himmel/Droga do Nieba und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-04-08
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The book is an attempt at a monographic approach to the problem of the reception of 17th-century Dutch painting in modern literature. However, the author deals not only with contemporary works but also with the texts of 19th-century writers and critics, most often...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-03-06
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This collection of essays by an award winning scholar and poet will appeal to readers from many areas of English, with particular appeal to grad students preparing to teach writing courses.
"As an admirer of Eli Goldblatt’s original, groundbreaking, and beautifully...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2024-03-06
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«This is a unique book which is multidisciplinary in the sense that it discusses a variety of genres which cut across film studies, literature and cartoons. The combination of emerging and renowned scholars’ writing in one anthology makes it an interesting book to add...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-28
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Die medizinische Dimension in den Prosawerken von Günter Grass ist bis dato weitestgehend unerforscht.Die vorliegende Studie ist ein erster Versuch, diese Forschungslücke zu schließen. Sie widmet sich der Darstellung von medizinischem Fachpersonal wie Krankenschwestern,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-26
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«Name ist Schall und Rauch», heißt es in Goethes Faust I. Diese Studie zeigt, dass Figurennamen allerdings viel mehr sind. Insbesondere die sprechenden Namen modellieren den Charakter und weisen Identität zu, was die Untersuchung maßgeblich anhand der Protagonistinnen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-20
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