Peter Lang: 4879 books
On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice
Noam Chomskys Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically...
At the Margin of One/Many Languages
Essays on South African Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. The volume comprises a variety of texts written during the crucial mid-1980s – the time...
Monster
Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Discussing how changes in electronic communication and artificial notions of landscape have impacted form...
Falling for Gravity
Invisible Forces in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book begins with the observation that contemporary artists have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade. Necessarily focusing on material practices – chiefly sculpture, installation, performance, and film – this discussion takes account of how and why artists have used gravity...
Film Mavericks in Action
New Hollywood, New Rhetoric, and Kenneth Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The book’s ambition is to uniquely yoke familiar histories of New Hollywood with aspects of critical theory that, since the 1950s, have embraced advances in the New Rhetoric as pioneered by literary theorist, philosopher, social analyst and educator Kenneth Burke (1897–1993). The study tracks...
Anthroposophy and Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book is the first thorough introduction into the scientific basis of anthroposophy and anthroposophical medicine in the context of academic science. On a sound epistemological basis and in the context of current debates it analyses basic concepts of physics, chemistry, genetics, morphogenesis,...
An Invitation to explore the Viaducts of our Minds
Ideology Critique in American Literature and Film during the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Artists explored the dark places of the American experience during the seventies. After providing an overview of the rhetorical device allegory, Barthes’s concept of mythology and Foucault’s concept of power relations, the author establishes a connection between the works of art under discussion....
Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio
Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is...
Destiny
The Life of Prince Diponegoro of Yogyakarta, 17851855
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book is a completely revised version of The Power of Prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785–1855 (2007). A vivid biography of Indonesia’s foremost national hero, it tells the story of a remarkable figure whose life spanned his native Java’s troubled transition...
House of Lords Reform: A History
Volume 1. The Origins to 1937: Proposals Deferred- Book One: The Origins to 1911- Book Two: 19111937
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
One of the peculiarities of British history is the development of a constitution headed by the Crown and the two Houses of Parliament. This system emerged to become a balance of democracy, efficiency and moderation that became the admiration of the world.
The contribution of the House of Lords to...
Erich Schmid: Lebenserinnerungen
Band 1: Autobiographie- Band 2: Briefe- Band 3: Konzertprogramme und Radioaufnahmen
Language: German
Release Date: September 10, 2014
In seiner Autobiographie beschreibt der Schweizer Dirigent und Komponist Erich Schmid (1907–2000) die Stationen seines Lebens: Seine Kindheit im reformierten Elternhaus in Balsthal, seine Ausbildung in Solothurn, Frankfurt am Main und Berlin – als Kompositionsstudent von Arnold Schönberg –,...
Becoming Educated
Young Peoples Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and...
by Javier Velaza
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This volume contains the papers of the colloquium Protohistory of the Text, which took place on 28 and 29 November 2013 at the Universitat de Barcelona. Each paper is devoted to the transmission of a major classical Latin text. The contributors are distinguished scholars from around the world such...
Broadcast Policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Power Structures, Programming, Cooperation and Defiance at Czech Radio 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Hitler’s regime invested heavily into radio as the most modern media of its era. First in Germany, later in Austria and the Sudetenland, Joseph Goebbels motivated his Volksgenossen to become active radio listeners. But what approach did the regime take to the first non-German people occupied –...