Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
A River Rather Than a Road
The Community Choir as Spiritual Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the development of community choir leadership. It provides a useful introduction to the sustaining of community...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
War and trauma are fundamental human experiences and central to German history, especially in the twentieth century. Since the First World War, which some Germans celebrated as the chance to annihilate the old culture to make space for a new one, German art has been implicated in war. War and trauma...
Navigating Maritime Languages and Narratives
New Perspectives in English and French
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. It focuses on the linguistic, literary and cultural exploration of the sea, considering new directions for research in the vast domain of «thalassology». Structured into two sections,...
Consuming Irish Children
Advertising and the Art of Independence, 18601921
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
As far as Irish history is concerned, consuming Irish children was not only a matter for Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Late nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a thriving home-grown advertising industry, and the Irish child played a pivotal role in developing a nascent consumer...
Memories of the Future
On Countervision
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future: On Countervision addresses these concerns by speculating...
Lovings the Strange Thing
Jungian Individuation in the Fairy Tales of Carmen Martín Gaite
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This groundbreaking volume argues that Carmen Martín Gaite and Carl Jung form an ideal combination. All the main features of the Jungian individuation process are present in the Spanish writer’s fairy tales: dreams, shadow figures, wise men and women, the Self, anima and animus. Martín Gaite has...
'Inspiring a Mysterious Terror'
200 Years of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, journalism and a verse-drama. While...
Biological Discourses
The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebrations of 2009 added to this tradition, inspiring a variety of new publications on the cultural reception...
The Reimagining Ireland Reader
Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
To mark the fact that the Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print, this book brings together a selection of essays from the first fifty volumes, carefully chosen to give a flavour of the diversity and multidisciplinary nature of the series. Following a chronological...
Irish Education and Catholic Emancipation, 17911831
The Campaigns of Bishop Doyle and Daniel OConnell
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The restrictions applied to Catholics in the early eighteenth century to curtail their political and economic power in Ireland were gradually removed by the British government in response to changing circumstances. By 1800 the remaining restrictions related to membership of Parliament and a few senior...
Rethinking the Human Person
Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Recent developments in the natural and social sciences have brought great benefits to humanity, both in terms of our material wellbeing and our intellectual and conceptual capacities. Yet, despite a broad ethical consensus and highly developed innate faculties of reason and conscience, there seems...
Leading-Edge Research in Public Sector Innovation
Structure, Dynamics, Values and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Government and non-profit innovation has emerged as a strong cross-disciplinary research field with its own schools of study. Innovation is studied in fields and organizations that are open to trying out new policies, programs and processes. In twenty-two years of publication, The Innovation Journal:...
The American President in Film and Television
Myth, Politics and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
As evidenced by the election of celebrity and reality television star Donald Trump, popular culture has played a vital role in the conceptualisation of political leadership. This revised edition of The American President in Film and Television explores the complex relationship between the construction...
Decolonizing Africa and African Development
The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara’s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumba’s call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africa’s underdevelopment and the short-circuiting of the...