Peter Lang: 4879 books
Under Fire
William T. Vollmann, «The Rifles»: A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Following in the steps of the nineteenth-century English explorer John Franklin, the contemporary American...
Areas and Methods of Audiovisual Translation Research
2nd Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
«This little gem offers the reader an overview of the various practices that form part of the ever increasing field of audiovisual translation (AVT) and makes brave inroads into the less glamorous but definitely needed areas of theory and research. Covering a wide range of topics in research in AVT,...
The Story of the Mexican Screenplay
A Study of the Invisible Art Form and Interviews with Women Screenwriters
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The Story of the Mexican Screenplay: A Study of the Invisible Art Form and Interviews with Women Screenwriters contributes to the international development of screenplay studies. While the debate on the ontology of the screenplay continues, a fact remains clear for screenwriters: the screenplay is...
Between State and Church
Confessional Relations from Reformation to Enlightenment: Poland Lithuania Germany Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The different theoretical notions and practices of the relations between the state and religious communities in early modern Europe constitute one of the most interesting problems in historiography. Moving away from a simple «toleration» versus «non-toleration» dichotomy, the author sets out to...
Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Volume 1: Contexts and analyses Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns...
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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...
Cruel Britannia
Sarah Kanes Postmodern Traumatics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics examines four plays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971–1999), all written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the «Cool Britannia», or «In-Yer-Face» London theatre movement of the 1990s. Kane’s plays were notorious for their...
Bernard Shaw in Brazil
The Reception of Theatrical Productions, 19272013
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1927, the first production of Pygmalion was staged in Brazil. At the time, over 65 per cent of the adult Brazilian population was illiterate, which makes it all the more surprising that directors and producers dared to stage such a controversial playwright – a writer who had often been rejected...
Literatura y ficción
La ruptura de la lógica ficcional
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 16, 2015
En este libro se elabora una teoría unificada de los géneros literarios y de la ficcionalidad. Se propone un modelo del texto literario capaz de integrar todas las manifestaciones literarias existentes o imaginables. Además, se intenta mostrar que hay géneros literarios ficcionales y no ficcionales,...
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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage presents articles on the theories of translation and adaptation, new insights on the work of Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Thomas Kilroy, and Tom Murphy, historical analyses of theatrical productions during the Irish Revival, interviews with contemporary theatre...
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...
Talking Shakespeare
Notes from a Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Talking Shakespeare is a collection of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and politics and their impact in the world today. Originally given as provocative talks on Shakespeare at some of the most prestigious universities, conferences, and theatres around the world, they reflect on the author’s more...
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....