Peter Lang: 4879 books
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Between Universal and Local
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The book explores two radical changes of cultural and social paradigm that determined the World after 1945 – Modernism and Postmodernism. From the cataclysmic atmosphere emerged the second wave of Modernism. In art this attitude was manifested in the form of a radical break with the aesthetic and...
Gustav Mahlers Mental World
A Systematic Representation Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler’s symphonies really be categorized as «absolute music»? – Little-known manuscript sources contain significant hints to the contrary: programmatic titles and catchwords...
An other Kind of Home
Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of...
by Graziela Rodrigues
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The author presents the method of research and creation in dance and theater in Brazil, called Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (Dancer-Researcher-Performer, BPI), which was created by the author herself. Through field research of ritual and Brazilian popular manifestations the author formulates...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish Land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate both the historical events themselves...
El juramento ante Dios, y lealtad contra el amor
A Modern and Critical Edition- Edited by Jaime Cruz-Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Lusitanian playwrights who wrote comedias during and after the Dual Monarchy (1580–1640), when the Portuguese and Spanish thrones were united under Habsburg rule, continue to be largely unexplored. This edition highlights the contributions of one of this group’s most successful and celebrated...
Antonfrancesco Grazzini («Il Lasca»), Two Plays
«The Friar» and «The Bawd» Translated with an Introduction by Marino DOrazio
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most genres, including novelle, burlesque poetry, and comedies. As a playwright he was, in his time, more popular than even Machiavelli. The Friar is a...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The body of the «Other» – exotic, unfamiliar, fascinating – is the topic of this collection of essays on nineteenth-century British theatre. Arranged chronologically, the volume traces visual representations of the Other across the nineteenth century as well as their legacy in contemporary theatrical...
Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel
Translation of the New and Revised Edition, «Kronprinz Rudolf. Ein Leben» (Amalthea, 2005)
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Brigitte Hamann portrays Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, as a liberal intellectual who stood in opposition to his father Emperor Franz Josef and the imperial establishment. Against the prevailing currents of his time, Rudolf wanted to modernize the Habsburg Empire by abolishing the privileges...
Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars
Circulation of Knowledge between Portugal and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The study of the relations between Portugal and the German-speaking countries in the 15th and 16th centuries is an intriguing topic that has attracted the interest of scholars for some decades. In recent years evidence accumulated has shown that there was still much to be known and even some large...
Invisible in Plain Sight
Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners – a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry – migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined...
Collisions of Conflict
Studies in American History and Culture, 1820-1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular interest today when the USA...
At the Crossroads: 18651918
A History of the Polish Intelligentsia Part 3, Edited by Jerzy Jedlicki
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. The third part deals with the period between 1865 and 1918. It is the period of numerical growth of the intelligentsia, growth of its self-consciousness...
Antisemitism in an Era of Transition
Continuities and Impact in Post-Communist Poland and Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The post-Communist transition in Eastern Central Europe has brought about democratic reform, liberalized economies and accession to the European Union, but also the emergence of political movements that revert to antisemitic rhetoric and arguments. This volume compares the genealogies and impact of...