Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age Theater
Essays in Honor of Matthew D. Stroud
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud’s seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated...
by Charlotte Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close analysis of the style, along with...
Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain
Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The essays in this book honor the seminal contributions to the field of early modern Spanish drama of Donald T. Dietz, who has devoted his career to the promotion of classical theater, not just as dramatic poetry but as vibrant performance art. Written by a variety of respected scholars and never...
The Concept of the Soul in Marcel Proust
Homophilia, Misogyny, and the Time-Memory Correlative
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The concept of the soul in Platonic, Ciceronian, and Talmudic thought segues into the Celtic tradition, Thomas Aquinas, and Maeterlinck and threads its way through the tapestry of Proust’s narrative and his principal characters. Bette H. Lustig uses a hermeneutic approach to the Proust texts, which...
by Charles A. Nunley
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Robert Desnos remains celebrated today as one of France’s most famous surrealist artists and as a hero and martyr of the French Resistance. Robert Desnos and the Play of Popular Culture sheds new light onto both of these facets of his persona and uncovers the fundamental connections between them...
Shakespeares Tragedies Reviewed
A Spectators Role
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Shakespeare’s Tragedies Reviewed explores how the recognition of spectator interests by the playwright has determined the detailed character of Shakespeare tragedies. Utilizing Shakespeare’s European models and contemporaries, including Cinthio and Lope de Vega, and following forms such as Aristotle’s...
Coming of Age in Francos Spain
Anti-Fascist Rites of Passage in Sender, Delibes, Laforet, Matute, and Martín Gaite
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
How could authors not write about the effects of a civil war that tore their nation in two, that divided and destroyed families and friends? They had to tell the story, though they were carefully scrutinized and censored. How could they resist artistically and present alternate voices and visions...
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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...
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...
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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...
Transparency 2.0
Digital Data and Privacy in a Wired World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Transparency 2.0 investigates a host of emerging issues around the collision of information and personal privacy in a digital world. Delving into the key legal concepts of information access and privacy, such as practical obscurity, the U.S. Supreme Court’s central purpose test, and Europe’s
emerging...
Advertising and Race
Global Phenomenon, Historical Challenges, and Visual Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Since colonization, dominant ideologies of «race» have been visualized and communicated through advertising. At its core, this book delineates the continuities and changes in what is termed the «colonial racial script» within global advertising representations. The origins of that script are traced...
The World of Stephanie St. Clair
An Entrepreneur, Race Woman and Outlaw in Early Twentieth Century Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem – earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she remains the only black female gangster...
Avatar, Assembled
The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Avatar, Assembled is a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatars—not as a monolithic phenomenon (as they are usually framed) but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from social (human-like) features like voice and gesture to technical (machine-like) features like...