Peter Lang: 4879 books
Italian Political Cinema
Public Life, Imaginary, and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that takes in reflections on public...
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...
Emotionale Dichte und abstrakte Schoenheit
Mela Meierhans Vokalwerk 19992011
Language: German
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt einen wichtigen Schritt zur systematischen musikwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Werk und Arbeitsweise der Komponistin Mela Meierhans dar, deren Schaffen bisher weder erfasst noch erforscht wurde. Dreiundzwanzig Vokalwerke aus der Zeit zwischen 1999 bis 2011 stehen...
«Christian Rock» Unterhaltung oder mehr?
Eine Betrachtung unter kulturanthropologischen und musikwissenschaftlichen Aspekten
Language: German
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Fast unbemerkt hat sich Christian Rock zu einem Phänomen entwickelt, an dem weder Musikwissenschaft noch Kirche vorbeikommen. Sein erklärtes Programm ist die Begegnung mit der Welt des Glaubens. Trotzdem wird er beargwöhnt, ja abgelehnt. So versucht der Autor ganz pragmatisch mit verschiedenen...
Bild, Affekt, Inventio
Zur «Johannespassion» Johann Sebastian Bachs
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Auf Grundlage dreier Zentralbegriffe aus der Musikanschauung der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts (Bild, Affekt, Inventio) unternimmt der Autor eine Neuinterpretation der «Johannespassion» Johann Sebastian Bachs. Konsequent wird dafür zudem erstmalig versucht, eine Synthese aus Quellen der Musikästhetik...
Copernicus: Platonist Astronomer-Philosopher
Cosmic Order, the Movement of the Earth, and the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In 1543, Copernicus publicly defended geokinetic and heliocentric universe. This book examines why and how he became a Copernican and what his affirmation of heliocentrism means in the context of the Scientific Revolution. Close reading of Copernicus’ texts and examination of his sociocultural context...
Care and Conflict
The Story of the Jewish Orphanage at Norwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Norwood, an Anglo-Jewish childcare institution founded in the late nineteenth century, was one of several hundred such institutions in the UK, but the only Jewish one. Throughout its history, Norwood had the unusual task of adapting its childcare approach to both British and Jewish concerns. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits – aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic – of spectacle? How do we explain the inherently exclusionary, revolutionary,...
A Diagnosis of Modern Life
Robert Musils "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften "as a Critical-Utopian Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften is not only a towering masterpiece of German literature but also an impressively rich and razor-sharp assessment of life in the beginning of the twentieth century. Musil can be regarded as one of the most original and hard-hitting cultural critics of his...
Toni Morrison and the Maternal
From «The Bluest Eye» to «God Help the Child», Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Linda Wagner-Martin’s study of African American writer Toni Morrison’s work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2012 novel Home, describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped throughout her career by her role within families. Morrison speaks...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The volume is a collection of essays representative of the wide focus of research encouraged and coordinated by the Polish Association for the Study of English (member of ESSE). Articles selected for the volume deal with works of poetry, drama and prose written in English and invite the reader to...
by Julia Hillenbrand
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in feminist discourse and Joyce Carol Oates’s recent fiction. While the first and second wave of feminism repudiated motherhood, the third wave claimed the right to enjoy it. The present fourth wave is now reviving the reservations about...
A Mandala of Words
Cultural Realities in the Poems of Ashok Vajpeyi
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet who – while searching for...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
This book reconstructs the perceptions about mixed marriages across generations, starting from a detailed analysis of the statistical background and a description of this phenomenon in the historical past, and then focusing on the case history of families. As ethnic and religious diversity has long...