Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Réhabilitation dun poète haïtien
Etzer Vilaire
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Le poète Etzer Vilaire (1872–1951) a fait l’objet de nombreuses critiques de la part des intellectuels car son œuvre s’écarte de la conception dominante de la poésie haïtienne adossée à une politique ouverte et une place importante accordée à la “couleur locale” et à la langue...
by Mohammed Hirchi
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Dans ce livre, qui s’inspire en partie du travail de Hayden White, je discuterai la relation entre le discours narratif et la représentation historique et littéraire selon l’approche critique de quatre écrivains contemporains d’expression française, Abdelkebir Khatibi (Maroc), Edouard Glissant...
Representation and Reception
Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Representation and Reception: Brechtian ‘Pedagogics of Theatre’ and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of theatre", to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom. Extrapolating on Brecht’s estranged...
A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) Translated with a Foreword by Vincenzo Traversa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Any one wishing to investigate the literary development of the golden century of early Italian literature, the Trecento, must read Natalino Sapegno’s extensive writings on the subject, in particular his Storia Letteraria del Trecento (A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century). The original Italian...
Higher Humanism
A Neotranscendental Philosophy of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The ideal of higher humanism challenges our modern civilization and its diminished image of the human being. A critique of the ideologies of "bourgeois humanism" provides a pathway toward the renascence of human identity and human dignity. Historical illustrations, drawn from the higher...
Defining Critical Animal Studies
An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement...
The Nordic PhD
Surviving and Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding is an edited book written for prospective and current doctoral students by a mix of doctoral students and those who have recently completed their doctorates. The premise is simple: if you could go back in time and talk with yourself when you began your studies,...
Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life
James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. This book makes a useful contribution...
A Child, A Family, A School, A Community
A Tale of Inclusive Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book is a true story of one family’s journey into inclusive education. Having previously been told that her son Benny had "failed to function" in two exclusionary special education classrooms in New York City, Berman’s family set off in search of a school where Benny would be accepted...
Urban Communication Regulation
Communication Freedoms and Limits
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Cities are where the majority of people in the world live. As such, it is critically important to understand cities when seeking to address quality-of-life issues. While the concentration of people in cities presents many complex issues that warrant attention, the focus of this book is on urban communication...
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks
Volume 2- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects current issues and discussions taking place in education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies and aesthetics; spirituality; cosmopolitanism;...
Uncovering Black Heroes
Lesser-Known Stories of Liberty and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Uncovering Black Heroes: Lesser-Known Stories of Liberty and Civil Rights is a series of stories regarding real people who are not so well known in the mainstream of American freedom and civil rights discussions. These people have made a difference by the events of their lives and by the deliberate...
Constructing Critical Consciousness
Narratives that Unmask Hegemony and Ideas for Creating Greater Equity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness Reader aims to help us rethink "race," racism, and whiteness as narratives with deep roots in the past that contribute to the current social order, and function to reproduce the social hierarchy in which we live. The reader includes several...
Exploring Globalization Opportunities and Challenges in Social Studies
Effective Instructional Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
This book on global issues, trends, and practices is intended to serve primarily as an instructional and learning resource in social studies methods courses for preservice teachers. In addition, it is an effective social studies and global education resource for college faculty, graduate students,...