Peter Lang: 4879 books
Korean Screen Cultures
Interrogating Cinema, TV, Music and Online Games
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The «Korean Wave», or Hallyu phenomenon, has brought South Korean popular culture to the global population. Studies on Korean visual culture have therefore often focused on this aspect, leaving North Korea sidelined and often considered in a negative light because of its political regime. Korean...
by Izabela Morska
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book addresses debt in postcolonial fiction: financial, social, historical, and cultural. The author examines how literary characters including servants, fallen women, and cultural outsiders pay or refuse to pay the debts imposed upon them, and the consequences of debts paid and unpaid. Working...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This unique collection of essays contains a synthesis of recent works by distinguished archaeologists and historians in their field, illuminating extensive research in the Southern Gaul and on the territory of the Greek city of Marseille.
Investigating the occupation of Massalia territory before the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
«The duty of the present is neither to copy nor to deny the past but to resurrect it», wrote W.H. Auden in 1948. The European voices that William B. Yeats and Sir Geoffrey Hill choose to resurrect reflect their shared hope in the future of humanity, as the essays in this book demonstrate. From Greek...
The Calvinesque
An Aesthetics of Violence in English Literature after the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This study deals with the aesthetic manifestations of one of the world’s most fiercely iconophobic and anti-aesthetic religious cultures: Calvinism. It establishes the category of the Calvinesque as an aesthetic of extreme violence against the human body. In close readings of theological documents,...
Black Feminist Literary Criticism
Past and Present With an Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Since its inception, black feminist literary criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical works that have challenged traditional approaches to (black) literature. This collection of essays explores past and current productions of black feminist theorizing, attempting to trace the trajectories...
Aesthetische Erfahrungen
Theoretische Konzepte und empirische Befunde zur kulturellen Bildung
Language: German
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Im Rahmen der aktuellen Diskussion zur ästhetischen und kulturellen Bildung gehen Autorinnen und Autoren unterschiedlicher kulturwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen der Frage nach, was ästhetische Erfahrungen sind. Indem sie interdisziplinär sowie ästhetisch-transformatorisch arbeiten, können sie...
A Theater Criticism/Arts Journalism Primer
Refereeing the Muses
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A Theater Criticism/Arts Journalism Primer: Refereeing the Muses examines the skill set associated with being a critic and arts journalist. It explores the history, evolution, and future of the profession in the United States, and carefully and purposefully dissects the preparation, observation, and...
Democratising the Museum
Reflections on Participatory Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Democratising the museum is a collection of articles reflecting upon the problem of how participation, technologically mediated or not, can support the museum in the process of becoming more accessible. The open museum shares power with its visitors while negotiating professionalism and the role of...
Pets and their Couples
Chardin, Charrière, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Marivaux
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Baroque novels focus on the psychology of love, while love in the context of nature is the subject of the pastoral genre. Introducing animals to such texts proves unexpectedly challenging. The inclusion of pets in the artistic representation involves a reversal of scale and various modes of comedy,...
Ahasuerus at the Easel
Jewish Art and Jewish Artists in Central and Eastern European Modernism at the Turn of the Last Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This survey asks a seemingly simple question: Is there an affinity between the emergence of modern art and various Avant-Garde movements such as Russian Suprematism and Polish or Hungarian Constructivism around about the turn of the last century and the process of Jewish assimilation in the Habsburg...
by Aneta Dybska
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political identities are mobilized and new modes of citizenship are articulated. This interdisciplinary analysis gleans insights from anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies, geography, political philosophy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This collection of essays on popular culture and politics in the Americas presents the study of ethnographic and historical data from different countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Each chapter brings to light a distinct focus on the way in which popular cultural...
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...