Peter Lang: 4879 books

The Male Body as Advertisement: Masculinities in Hispanic Media offers a multidisciplinary view of the body of men, of its practices and attributes, of its features, and, most importantly, of its use as a persuasive and expressive resource. Just as it occurred with the female body, the male body has...

The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) which is/was marginalized in American society. Reaching far beyond the boundaries of original agenda (Edwin Ardener’s and Elaine Showalter’s), the...

This book presents the phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean poetry in English from Jamaican classic dub poetry of the 1970s to (Black) British post-dub verse of the 2000s. It showcases the literary continuum, as represented by Jamaican, Jamaican-British, and ultimately (Black) British writers – Mutabaruka,...

L’histoire des perplexités et des indéterminations dans la langue de la politique reste à faire. Cet ouvrage a choisi de s’arrêter sur un moment décisif de cette histoire : le tournant des XVe et XVIe siècles en péninsule italienne, un véritable laboratoire de la langue et des idées....

The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both theologians...

This encyclopedia aims to provide a ready reference to various aspects of American culture. The time frame is from the colonial period to the end of the 20th century. The areas covered are fine arts (painting, sculpture, photography); performing arts (music, ballet, theatre, film); architecture; literature; and various non-artistic forms of culture (symbolic, material, culinary).

Lorsque Rollon et sa bande s’établissent en basse Seine, depuis plus d’un siècle déjà, l’Occident chrétien est victime des raids vikings. Après les régions côtières, les bassins fluviaux sont la proie des pillards. Dans un premier temps, l’Empire carolingien résiste efficacement,...

With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been turning, with remarkable regularity and ingenuity, to Alfred Hitchcock-related images, sequences and iconography. The world of Hitchcock’s cinema – a classical cinema of formal unities and narrative coherence – represents more...

Hat Schumanns Liederzyklus in unserer heutigen Musikkultur noch eine Daseinsberechtigung? Sind wir heute, wo sich unser Frauenbild gegenüber dem Biedermeier geradezu umgekehrt hat, nicht dazu angehalten, uns mit demjenigen des 19. Jahrhunderts historisch vertraut zu machen? Nicht das Was, das faktische...

The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which cross boundaries and challenge habitual thinking, consequently involving an element of provocation. While it is true that not all great art is provocative, the most memorable artefacts are these which have confounded...

The philosophical influence is a concept, a methodological tool and a process worth inquiring, because it sets the frame for the philosopher’s contribution into tradition. This study takes a close look at the philosophical influence on the dependence and inter-dependence between ideas and concepts,...

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...

Identifying the roots of African American spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since this genre came to the public eye in 1867. The conversation on origins has waned and waxed for over eighty years, sometimes polemical, sometimes compromising....

This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how literary themes in spirituals...