Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
Educating for Sexual Virtue
A Moral Vision for Relationships and Sex Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is an issue surrounded by controversy and debate, with important implications for the interconnected roles of the state, the school and the home and for the way we understand ourselves, our sexual identity and our personal relationships.
This book charts...
Movement and Connectivity
Configurations of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of «mobility» for anthropological thought and theorization.
The book scrutinizes mobility through...
Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space
Borders, Networks, Escape Lines
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts....
French Feminisms 1975 and After
New Readings, New Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a sophisticated theoretical approach...
Poetics of the Antilles
Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than...
The Mind's Isle
Imaginary Islands in English Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island fiction as a genre specific to English literature. Close readings of island fictions from the past...
Writing the Great War / Comment écrire la Grande Guerre?
Francophone and Anglophone Poetics / Poétiques francophones et anglophones
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
For France the First World War, or Great War, was a war of national self-defence, but for Britain it was not. Does that mean that French literary treatments of this unimaginably destructive war were very different from British ones? Not necessarily – but much can be learned from considering both...
On Mysticism, Ontology, and Modernity
A Theological Engagement with Secularity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This new study offers a serious and long-overdue examination of the unstable bifurcation between theology and secularity. Rather than understanding these two formative elements of culture to be in a constant state of opposition, the author chooses an alternative path toward their reconciliation. In...
Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was one of the most significant Italian artists of the late twentieth century. This volume – the first scholarly book-length publication on Ghirri to appear in English – introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader audience and positions...
by Shaun May
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The entry of the capital relation into its epoch of structural crisis forms the material basis for the development of the author’s conception of revolutionary agency. Drawing on the work and achievements of both Marx and Hungarian socialist thinker István Mészáros, May relates the emergence and...
John Berryman
Centenary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition...
Re-Place
Irish Theatre Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one...
Political Animals
News of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Newspapers have long been enthralled by accounts of cute, cuddly, strange, dangerous and endangered beasts, and by extraordinary and sometimes apocryphal narratives of natural phenomena. This study explores the incidence of several such stories in the British press: from reports of the "ethnic" conflicts...
A System That Excludes All Systems
Giacomo Leopardi's «Zibaldone di pensieri»
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
For many decades Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri has been seen as a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions whose final expression is to be found in the published poems (the Canti) and satirical dialogues (the Operette morali). The conceptual consistency of the work was thereby...