Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Invisible in Plain Sight
Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners – a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry – migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined...
Probing the Past
Festschrift in Honor of Leo Schelbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the story of European migrations and...
Reading Natures Book
Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is widely recognized as one of the greatest scientific thinkers in history. Intriguingly, when offered a place in the Medici court in 1610, he requested the title of «Philosopher and Chief Mathematician.» Reading Nature’s Book: Galileo and the Birth of Modern Philosophy...
Correspondance
The Birth of Belgian Surrealism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Correspondance is the name of a Belgian Surrealist magazine published in 1924–1925 by Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans, and Marcel Lecomte. It is considered as seminal as Breton’s «Surrealist Manifesto» (1924). The texts were tart, obscure responses to the arcane literary debates of the time, in...
«Covenant Keeper»
Derrick Bells Enduring Education Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Although he spent his career as a lawyer and law school professor, Derrick Bell had a profound impact on the field of education in the area of educational equity. Among many accomplishments, Bell was the first African American to earn tenure at the Harvard Law School; he also established a new course...
Erika and Klaus Mann
Living with America
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Erika and Klaus Mann: Living with America provides new insights into the lives of Thomas Mann’s two eldest children, by focusing on their years in America. It begins with Erika and Klaus Mann’s self-promotional tour of the United States in 1927–1928, and follows up with their return in 1936...
Literature and Error
A Literary Take on Mistakes and Errors
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Literature and Error comprises a series of essays by French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a theory that would argue for the productivity of errors and mistakes in literary works. While the "necessity of errors" has repeatedly been tackled from a philosophical angle, rarely...
Dreams, Hallucinations, Dragons, the Unconscious, and Ekphrasis in German Romanticism
Ludwig Tieck's Skillful Study of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
When reading Ludwig Tieck’s texts, the reader becomes aware that dreams, the unconscious, and art play a key role. This study posits that Ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into the verbal in order to gain a...
Bills of Mortality
Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year to Tony Kushner’s...
Mapping Holistic Learning
An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Mapping Holistic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams introduces the concept of aesthetigrams. These are participant-produced visual maps of aesthetic engagement. The map-making strategy was originally developed by one of the authors, Boyd White, to assist him in understanding what his...
Moving Ideas
Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
What does it look and feel like to communicate, create, compose, comprehend, teach, and learn with our bodies? Reaching beyond existing scholarship on multimodality and literacies, Moving Ideas expands our capacity to understand the embodied dimensions of learning and stretches our repertoires for...
Alchemy of the Soul
An African-centered Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author’s life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experiences, was to start an African-centered school. The dream in the night ignited the journey that led to this book, which was to discover answers to critical...
by Susana Sampaio-Dias
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Reporting Human Rights provides a systematic examination of human rights news and reporting practices from inside the world of television news production.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, the book discusses the potential of journalism in contributing to human rights protection, awareness...
Medeas Chorus
Myth and Womens Poetry Since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Women’s mythic revision is a tradition at the heart of twentieth-century literature. Medea’s Chorus explores post-WWII women’s poetry that takes Greek mythology as its central topos. The book investigates five of the most influential poets writing in the twentieth century (H.D., Sylvia Plath,...