Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
Nacer desde el sueño
Fenomenología del onirismo en el pensamiento de María Zambrano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
María Zambrano (1904–1991) creó una antropología filosófica labrando con paciencia artesanal y vitalicia un puñado de conceptos: la divinización de lo sagrado, la razón-poética, el sentir originario, la forma-sueño, el devenir-persona. El pensamiento subyacente a los conceptos de forma-sueño...
Frank Confessions
Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank McCourt
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This book aims to redress the critical neglect of Frank McCourt’s life-writing, which has been dismissed all too frequently as «misery memoir» and deemed commercially driven or aesthetically and politically naïve. It reassesses the life cycle of McCourt’s work, investigating the experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
"It was a great night for Mexico, as usual." Donald Trump's words about Alejandro González Iñárritu on Oscars’ night 2014 were a preview of his now-notorious attitude toward Mexicans: "He´s walking away with all the gold? Was it that good? I don´t hear that. It was certainly...
Frank Capra and the Cinema of Identity
Celebration and Interrogation
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This study proposes a new definition of Frank Capra’s work as a cinema of identity, focusing on his reflection on American national identity as well as his own positioning as a US immigrant. The interplay of celebration and interrogation is used to show the two poles of his films’ narrative structure,...
Gender in Practice
Culture, Politics and Society in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In Sierra Leone, the dominant epistemological framework of the political and social history of the country and the post-colonial understanding of the place of men and women are based on the inter-subjective discourses of power, place, identity and belongingness. Through a complex web of culturally...
Geoffrey Hill
The Drama of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) was often hailed as one of the most important – and one of the most difficult – poets of his lifetime. This book is a timely investigation into a writer whose work seems simultaneously to invite analysis and to refuse explanations of its sensuous, allusive language....
Unbridling the Western Film Auteur
Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
According to Jim Kitses (1969), the Western originally offered American directors a rich canvas to express a singular authorial vision of the American past and its significance. The Western’s recognizable conventions and symbols, rich filmic heritage, and connections to pulp fiction created a widely...
Nihilismo y verdad
Nietzsche en América Latina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Las relaciones entre Nietzsche y América Latina están marcadas por el desencuentro. Lo cual no implica que Nietzsche no haya sido leído en Latinoamérica; pero es diferente aludir a Nietzsche, a asumir una perspectiva nietzscheana. Por eso, en vez de usar a Nietzsche para analizar su moral, para...
Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory
Transitions and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance in Irish society....
Comparative Becomings
Studies in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object and form of knowledge as it...
Blick Mead: Exploring the 'first place' in the Stonehenge landscape
Archaeological excavations at Blick Mead, Amesbury, Wiltshire 20052016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Stonehenge landscape is one of the most famous prehistoric places in the world, but much about its origins remains a mystery and little attention has been paid to what preceded, and thus may have influenced, its later ritual character. Now, the discovery of a uniquely long-lived Mesolithic occupation...
Dignity and Human Rights Education
Exploring Ultimate Worth in a Post-Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book addresses the question of human rights education in a world that is witnessing a resurgence of religion in public life, and a continuation of religion across much of the globe, long after secularization theories predicted its decline. Promoting a universal vision of human rights while acknowledging...
Multiliteracies, Discourses and Identities
The Multiliteracy Practices of Chinese Children in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book explores the everyday reading and writing experiences of children from Chinese families living in Britain. Using an ethnographic approach, the author presents in-depth case studies of three migrant children, all of whom received some education in mainland China before moving to Britain....
Inclusion in Context
Policy, Practice and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Recent years have seen a rapid policy transformation from segregation to inclusion in the education of children with special educational needs in Ireland. This book investigates how resource teachers and class teachers interpret the policy and principles of inclusion and enact these in their practice....