Bøger udgivet af Peter Lang

«Murderous Mothers is both an homage to and a critical reflection on the multiple Medea figures that populate late twentieth-century German literature. Claire Scott artfully demonstrates how feminist politics and women¿s issues ¿ from abstract questions about the power of women¿s bodies and voices, to concrete matters like abortion and sexual violence ¿ speak through this ancient myth, transforming it into something vital and urgent. Scott¿s own voice is crystal clear throughout, which allows the layers of productive critique to shine through. With its sophisticated literary analyses, its deep engagement with feminist and postcolonial theory, and its lucid and accessible style, Murderous Mothers will interest and provoke a range of readers and critics.» (Kata Gellen, Duke University)¿«Murderous Mothers explores the ambiguities of literary Medea adaptations in beautifully written, engaging prose. For anyone interested in the aesthetics and politics of contemporary literature, this book offers brilliant examples of how literary adaptations of classical myths can contribute to contemporary political discourses on motherhood, reproductive rights, gender, and rage.» (Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)¿This book explores German-language Medea adaptations from the late twentieth century and their relationship to feminist theory and politics. Close readings of novels and plays by Ursula Haas, Christa Wolf, Dagmar Nick, Dea Loher, and Elfriede Jelinek reveal the promise and the pitfalls of using gendered depictions of violence to process inequity and oppression. The figure of Medea has been called many things: a witch, a barbarian, a monster, a goddess, a feminist heroine, a healer, and, finally, a murderous mother. This book considers Medea in all her complexity, thereby reframing our understanding of identity as it relates to feminism and to mythological storytelling. This book project was the Joint Winner of the 2020 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition for German Studies in America.

Le mystère de la violence semble tout entier contenu dans le récit du chapitre 4 de la Genèse. Il transforme en affrontement le lien de sang entre Caïn et Abel, deux frères que rien n¿aurait dû séparer. Alors qüaucun événement ne laisse supposer la moindre rivalité entre eux, ce déchaînement de violence physique sembleconsubstantiel à la fratrie.Comment interpréter l¿énigmatique interpellation divine qui précède l¿irrémédiable geste fratricide ? Est-ce vraiment parce qüAbel est son frère que Caïn le tue ? Si oui, comment expliquer que la violence préexiste au chapitre 4 et subsiste bien au-delà du récit de Caïn et Abel, dans des contextes différents et sous d¿autres formes ? Si, au contraire, la violence ne trouve pas son origine dans cette fratrie, son traitement en Gn 4 ne renverrait-il pas l¿homme à sa propre violence, au sein d¿une humanité déjà fragilisée ?En faisant appel aux outils de l¿exégèse biblique, cet ouvrage apporte de nouvelles réponses à ces questions anthropologiques et propose une lecture originale d¿un texte connu mais souvent mal compris. Dans un monde déchiré par des guerres fratricides, ce rapport tendu entre violence et fraternité demeure un sujet brûlant d¿actualité.

«Michelle Leese's book is a must-read for those interested in the German impersonal passive. Based on an experimental study of almost 400 zero-argument passives she convincingly shows that this allegedly "exceptional" passive is the very core from which all werden-passives in their meaning as "event-focused action" are derived.»(Petra M. Vogel, Professor of German Linguistics, University of Siegen, Germany)«This book presents a vast amount of original data to confront a glaring weakness of the aspect analysis of the German passive: if the actional passive is telic, why is the impersonal passive of the type Es wurde getanzt atelic? The answer given is a revelation delightful in its simplicity.»(Dr Christopher Beedham, Honorary Lecturer, Department of German, University of St Andrews, Scotland)Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even though most passives do not contain the agent ¿ the entity carrying out the action ¿ that would be crucial to such a conversion. Beedham¿s aspect analysis offered an alternative perspective which discarded any notion of a mandatory connection to the active, and instead proposed that passive formation requires only a lexically telic verb, compositional telicity and a patient (affected entity) subject.This book challenges both these analyses via an empirical investigation into the somewhat neglected impersonal passive in German of the type Es wurde getanzt, which, as a zero-argument, atelic construction, exists as an exception to both the voice and aspect analysis rules. Using the theoretical framework of Saussurean structuralism and Beedham¿s «method of exceptions and their correlations», this book presents a new, «event-focused» analysis of both this impersonal passive and the German actional passive in general; plus, it proposes that since Es wurde getanzt, as the barest form of passive and the closest realisation of the werden + ge-V-t core of all passives, is atelic, this werden-passive core too is atelic.

The focus of this tri-authored scholarly work is on marketing communication and consumer behaviour of the selected generations X, Y, and Z in terms of the size of purchases and the types of retail outlets they use. The main part of the book deals with theoretical aspects of retail business and with marketing communication and consumer behaviour of specific generations in the retail sector. The main outcome lies in identifying the optimal location of retail units in combination with customer service to be provided to selected generations and the market potential of the buying gradient in terms of competitors¿ impacts. The book also focuses on applying the results of the analyses whilst outlining the potential of the prediction models of generational tendencies towards the realisation of purchases in relation to marketing communication of the retail sector and its subsequent stimulation.

The New Left was a broad, heterogeneous, transnational, anti-systemic movement of movements which pursued the radical transformation of power structures during the 1960s and the early 1970s. Its activists opposed all forms of oppression ¿ class, racial, gender and so forth ¿ and strove for the redistribution of power on a global scale. Their ideas fuelled the intense cycles of protest of the period and allowed for symbolically connecting movements all over the world.This book reconstructs the dissemination of the characteristic ideas and traits of the New Left by analysing its most prominent magazines and journals. Through the analysis of US, European and Latin American publications, it reveals how the ideological framework of the New Left was conceived and disseminated by a series of critical communities of activists and intellectuals who communicated and debated across borders. The result of the joint efforts of a group of eminent specialists and young scholars from seven different countries, this pioneering work contributes valuable empirical evidence to the study of the processes of intellectual change occurring throughout the twentieth century.