Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Il presente volume raccoglie i risultati di due seminari svoltisi nel 2011 a Roma e nel 2013 a Friburgo. Un’ampia gamma di soggetti è rappresentata nei saggi pubblicati, che spaziano dal tardo Cinquecento al pieno Settecento. Un saggio esce dalla città di Napoli per paragonare la vita musicale...
The German «Lied» after Hugo Wolf
From Hans Pfitzner to Anton Webern
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Following the development of the German Lied after the nineteenth century – when it was widely known as the setting of Romantic poetry to music – this book explores the changing artistic scene in the early twentieth century, as rapid social, economic and environmental changes affected German cultural...
France and Ireland
Notes and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The rich association between Ireland and France is embodied in music, art and creative writing from both countries and this collection provides a tantalising selection of these interweaving influences. The book presents a vivid picture of interactions between composers, performers, poets and novelists...
Translation and Popular Music
Transcultural Intimacy in TurkishGreek Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Research on translation and music has so far focused mainly on «art music» and on issues such as quality, singability and accessibility. Studies which seek to embed translation and music within their historical and sociocultural contexts are relatively rare. This book aims to shed light on how translations...
Listening to the French New Wave
The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
As perhaps the most studied film movement in cinematic history, the French New Wave has been analysed and criticised, romanticised and mythologised, raising the question of whether it is possible to write anything new about this period. Yet there are still gaps in the scholarship, and the study of...
Transnational Revolutionaries
The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The organization of several thousand Irish American men into a military outfit, which then attempted to invade Canada from within the United States, is a significant historical event that remains largely unexplored from an Irish and Irish American perspective. This study offers a fuller exploration...
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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...
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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...
Shockwaves of Possibility
Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism...
The Metamorphoses of Lucretia
Three Eighteenth-Century Reinterpretations of the Myth: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The virtuous Roman matron Lucretia killed herself in 509 b. C. Her death is considered the cause of the Roman revolt against the Tarquins and the mainspring of the passage from the monarchic to the republican age. It is a myth about private and public dimensions: it tells about woman and revolution....
Mick Imlah
Selected Prose
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956–2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his twenty-five-year career working for the Times Literary Supplement, reinterpreting familiar writers from Tennyson and Trollope to Larkin and Muldoon,...
History and Fiction
Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review
Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores the nature of the author’s...
«My Name is Freida Sima»
The American-Jewish Womens Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New...
Bridging the Political and the Personal
Literary Translation in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book examines literary translation in contemporary China from two perspectives. The first is related to the social and political dimension of translation, which is concerned with the general context of translation, translation practices, literary norms as well as the structures that support them....