Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
Mazes and Amazements
Borges and Western Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Borges gained his first lessons in philosophy from his father while still a young boy – an intimate home schooling that grew into a long-term obsession. Its ubiquitous presence in his thought and writing has made him one of the most distinctive literary philosophers in the West, expressing itself...
Autumnal Faces
Old Age in British and Irish Dramatic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Autumnal Faces is a timely study within the ever-growing research on the ways older people and ageing itself have been conceptualized and represented in the popular imagination and, more specifically, in drama and on stage. Tracing this theme from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century, this...
Fighting Words
Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019
Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped...
Between Categories
The Films of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Margaret Tait – filmmaker, photographer, poet, painter, essayist and short story writer – is one of the UK’s most unique and remarkable filmmakers. She was the first female filmmaker to create a feature-length film in Scotland (Blue Black Permanent, 1992). Although for most of her career Tait...
The Pilgrimage and Conversion of Thomas Chalmers
Following His Journey from Anstruther to Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book follows the life and work of Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) from his childhood in Anstruther to the end of his ministerial career in Glasgow in 1823. He became a theologian, minister and Scottish reformer and is best remembered for his involvement in the Disruption of 1843. Following Chalmers’...
New Crops, Old Fields
Reimagining Irish Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions of Irish folklore are engaged...
The English Protestant Churches since 1770
Politics, Class and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book aims to describe and analyse the political and social thinking, attitudes and actions of the English Protestant churches since the late eighteenth century. It focuses in particular on how they have responded to the plight of the least privileged members of society – individuals and groups...
A Land on the Threshold
South Tyrolean Transformations, 19152015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Among the many commemorations of World War I, little was made of the 100th anniversary of the secret Treaty of London between Italy and the Western War Allies in April 1915, which sealed the fate of South Tyrol for the duration of the twentieth century by passing it from Austria to Italy. In May 2015,...
Managing Time
Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This volume offers a multidimensional exploration of the theme of time in early modern France: of time past, time present and time future, in literature and in life.
In poetry, the importance of past and future perspectives was studied by Maynard and La Fontaine. The dynamics of tragic drama...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Andreas Dresen is a leading European filmmaker whose œuvre now spans three decades and includes some of the most acclaimed German films of recent times, such as Halbe Treppe (Grill Point, 2002), Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin, 2005) and Halt auf freier Strecke (Stopped on Track, 2011). The...
Travel Texts and Moving Cultures
German Literature and the Mobilities Turn
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This question is at the heart of this book, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of German literature and film and the emerging field of mobilities studies, which places movement and travel at the...
Childrens Media and Modernity
Film, Television and Digital Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Throughout the modern era the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, urbanisation, technology, consumerism and capitalism. Children represent a symbolic retreat from modern life, culturally aligned with fairy tales, medievalism, animals and nature. Yet...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This is the first anthology to explore the fertile intersection of dance and political studies. It offers new perspectives on the connections of dance to governmental, state and party politics, war, nationalism, activism, terrorism, human rights, political ideologies and cultural policy. This cutting-edge...
The 'Stolpersteine' and the Commemoration of Life, Death and Government
A Philosophical Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the German artist Gunter Demnig has been installing his Stolpersteine [Stumbling Stones] all over Europe – including Russia – to commemorate the victims of National Socialism. Today, the Stolpersteine constitute the world’s second largest Holocaust monument....