Peter Lang: 4879 books
Alban Berg
Music as Autobiography- Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by studying the inner biography of its creator. Accordingly,...
Music as Message
An Introduction to Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents...
Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes
Studies in Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to traditional...
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century
Translated by Neil K. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not only Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner were crucial...
Italians in Early Modern Poland
Translated by Katarzyna Popowicz
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The book provides a panorama of Italian migrants’ activities in Polish economy, political life and, above all, culture. The motivations of Italians who decided to travel to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and quite often settled there permanently, the reasons which made this migration possible...
Eccentricity and Sameness
Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has been previously asserted. Focusing on texts published...
Exploring History
British Culture and Society 1700 to the Present Essays in Honour of Professor Emma Harris
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This volume of essays in honour of Professor Emma Harris explores various branches of British history from 1700 to the present. The range of topics reflects the varied academic interests of the authors, who are friends, colleagues, and former students of Professor Harris. The essays take us on a journey...
Medizin und Sprache die Sprache der Medizin
Medycyna i jzyk jzyk medycyny
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Medizin und Sprache – die Sprache der Medizin lautete das Thema der 14. Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin. Der Tagungsband umfasst 17 Beiträge, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven das Verhältnis von Sprache und Medizin thematisieren. Die Autoren diskutieren...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The central focus of the book is the identification of the ways people engage in communicative encounters to (re)constitute personal and social identities. Its aim is to identify some principal themes that have emerged from the ample research on identity in a variety of contexts. A common thread of...
Strategic Planning for Public Relations
Beginning the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Strategic Planning for Public Relations: Beginning the Journey is written for the next generation of public relations professionals. It takes account of the changing needs of the PR industry, where strategic thinking is needed in abundance but tends to be in short supply among many people who are...
The Trayvon Martin in US
An American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The events surrounding the Trayvon Martin murder, trial and acquittal bring to public and private discourse the violent, brutal murders of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Dr. King, while bringing back to memory the racially provoked murders of Black American and Black immigrant men such...
Intersections, Interferences, Interdisciplines
Literature with Other Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This volume advances the study of how the high arts and literature are reciprocally illuminating and interactive. Seventeen scholars from North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe demonstrate the dynamics of cross-referentiality and mixtures involving also newer and popular arts and media: photography,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This engaging collection of essays considers the cultural complexities of the Franco-Irish relationship in song and story, image and cuisine, novels, paintings and poetry. It casts a fresh eye on public perceptions of the historic bonds between Ireland and France, revealing a rich variety of contact...
by Seán Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Drawing on recently released or previously neglected archive material, this book is the first dedicated to the stage career of Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952). Best known for her work with the women’s suffrage movement, Hamilton was at the same time deeply committed to the commercial stage as an actress,...