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Evil is a salient component of Endō Shūsaku's writing. This study offers new insight into the intellectual and artistic development of the author by focusing on a lesser known yet...

In this volume, academics involved in teaching second languages at university level describe how they have embraced the challenges involved in facilitating student learning. It sets out practical...

Hindsight and the Real: Subjectivity in Gay Hispanic Autobiography studies the representations of self and the discursive constitution of identity in the autobiographical works by several (mostly)...

This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. Through a poetic enactment, an epic poem and its companion reader, the author explores...

This book is written to satisfy the individual's desire for intellectual stimulation, to sow in the mind the seed of new ideas, and involve the reader in productive debates about what is history, its...

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 1 covers Anglo-Saxon literature, including...

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often...

To order the hardback version please contact order@peterlang.com. (Retail Price: 90) History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages...

To order the hardback version please contact order@peterlang.com. (Retail Price: 90) History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages...

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often...

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 5 focuses on the fiction of the early and...

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 6 addresses the literature of the 'Victorian...

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 7 is dedicated to the four main figures of...

For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact orders@peterlang.com (Retail Price: 100.00, $151.90). 'Franco Marucci's History of English Literature is unique in its field. There is...

How should the Holocaust be taught in schools, and to what end? What role should religious education play in recounting and remembering this human catastrophe? How has the nature and purpose of...

This book presents an innovative English adaptation of Stephan Hermlin's 1970 radio play Scardanelli, about the life of poet-philosopher Friedrich H?lderlin, accompanied by essays and commentary. It...

The private detective novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane have provided the source for some of Hollywood's most successful, controversial and baffling films. Spanning...

Hafid Bouazza is a highly influential and celebrated author in the Netherlands today. In the context of contemporary Dutch literature, Bouazza's Moroccan background still marks a...

This volume originates in the 2011 conference of the International Network for the History of Hospitals. It focuses on how institutions for the care and cure of the sick have organized their...

Volume 3 of Peter Raina's magisterial history covers the 1960s and draws on newly released documents. In astonishing detail, it traces new plans drawn up during the Macmillan-Wilson era to reform the...

This study of the adjectival passive uses Christopher Beedham's aspect analysis of the passive to reconcile the contradiction between verbal and adjectival passive. The author's study of 1,000 2nd...

The book paints a detailed picture of commercial pilot lifestyle, from the struggle to pay for training to time spent down route to thoughts of retirement. Once a glamorous occupation, commercial...

Published as a general textbook in English for the first time following a very successful original edition in Norwegian, also translated to Russian and French, this richly-illustrated book offers a...

The overarching aim of this work is to develop a new account of the doctrine of the Trinity. The author proposes that such an approach is overdue because contemporary trinitarian theology pays...

This study provides a wide-ranging critique of contemporary anti-humanist postcolonial theory. By charting a genealogy of the complicity of humanism and oppression in the New World, this analysis...

How to become Jacques Derrida's reader? By letting his texts engender you. Such a birth is taken literally by Jeremy Stewart, who proves by algebra that he is the author's bastard son. In this...

This book examines the role of computers in language learning and teaching in higher education. In particular, it considers the pedagogical and practical value of designing a language-learning...

The papers collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference which took place at the University of Minho, Portugal, in July 2001 held under the auspices of the project...

Lo studio rilegge il teatro in volgare del Quattrocento concentrandosi sulle corti padane di Mantova, Ferrara e Milano. Partendo da una prospettiva ampia - che tiene insieme letteratura, spettacolo e...

Both a fascinating historically informed account of flying saucers in military and popular imagination, from their arrival in the 1940s until the present, and a satisfying intellectual account of...