Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
The Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-Siècle Italy
Degeneration and Regeneration in Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In the 1880s and 1890s, materialism in art was counterbalanced by attention to the subjective individual experience, expressed in the new modes inaugurated by Symbolism, Decadence and Aestheticism. In particular, Decadent artists and writers inspired the lasting name of an age fascinated by the contemplation...
Lillian de Lissa, Women Teachers and Teacher Education in the Twentieth Century
A Transnational History
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Beginning with Lillian de Lissa’s career as foundation principal of the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College in Australia (1907–1917) and Gipsy Hill Training College in London (1917–1947), and incorporating the lives and work of her Australian and British graduates, this book illuminates the...
Australian Indigenous Studies
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world – particularly its Indigenous component – and an awareness...
Forces of Ambiguity
Life, Death, Disease and Eros in Thomas Manns «Der Zauberberg»
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Thomas Mann’s novel Der Zauberberg (1913–1924) illustrates a change in the author’s conceptions of life, death, disease and Eros following World War I. Set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, the novel’s main protagonist, Hans Castorp, comes into contact with three pedagogic figures who each...
Persisting in Folly
Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 19632013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The theme of foolishness has long occupied an unusually prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. In literature, the figure of the fool – and the voice of the fool – has carried additional appeal as an enduring source of comic...
The Shaping of English Poetry Volume IV
Essays on 'The Battle of Maldon', Chrétien de Troyes, Dante, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes on the great subjects of English literature in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The Norman Conquest of England built upon the rich foundation of Anglo-Saxon England but...
Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets
Essays, Poems, Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets juxtaposes two countries on the margins of Europe that display many affinities: Ireland and Greece. It investigates the ways in which contemporary poetry from both countries engages with external and internal landscapes, bringing together essays by poets and scholars,...
Starvation, Food Obsession and Identity
Eating Disorders in Contemporary Womens Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies have been depicted by writers across a variety of languages and cultures, since before the medicalisation of eating disorders in the late nineteenth century to the present day. This cross-cultural volume explores the fictional...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The essays in this book explore the different ways the body has been experienced and interpreted in history, from the medieval to the modern period. Challenging the negative perceptions that the term ‘disability’ suggests, the essays together present a mosaic of literary representations of bodies...
by Dominic Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire’s vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this vast expansion, repeatedly...
Multilingualism and English in Twenty-First-Century Europe
Recent Developments and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book aims to tackle one of the most controversial and important linguistic, educational and societal debates in contemporary Europe. English is growing rapidly within, and spreading across, an increasing number of areas of society. This development is influenced by actions taken by national and...
by Paniel Reyes Cárdenas
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The aim of this work is to respond to the following question: how did Charles S. Peirce find unity for his pragmatist philosophy through the formulation of Scholastic Realism? The author proposes the said doctrine to be a reading guide, leading us through the different stages of Peirce’s work as...
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
William Blake (1757–1827) is one of the most significant figures in the history of English poetry. He is also one of the most mysterious, most challenging, and most frequently misunderstood. His Songs of Innocence and of Experience, on the surface so simple, are laden with mysteries that seem to...
by Iva Polak
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This is the first study that brings together the theory of the fantastic with the vibrant corpus of Australian Aboriginal fiction on futurities. Selected works by Ellen van Neerven, Sam Watson, Archie Weller, Eric Willmot and Alexis Wright are analysed as fictional prose texts that construct alternative...