Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
The Other Guy
Media Masculinity Within the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Suffering from «manopause» and «Low T», underemployed and unwilling to grow up, «the other guy» has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to change with the times,...
Redeemed at Countless Cost
The Recovery of Iconographic Theology and Religious Experience from 1850 to 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of religion. The introduction sets...
Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age
New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The continuous evolution of internet and related social media technologies and platforms have opened up vast new means for communication, socialization, expression, and collaboration. They also have provided new resources for researchers seeking to explore, observe, and measure human opinions, activities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The objective of Hispanic (LGT) Masculinities in Transition is to investigate the cultural representations/intersections of masculinity and sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, and transgenders) in Spain between the passing of the Law of Social Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) and the...
Heightened Performative Autoethnography
Resisting Oppressive Spaces within Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book argues for – and carries out – what the author terms Heightened Performative Autoethnography (HPA). The common theme throughout the volume involves resisting oppressive and hegemonic spaces within paradigms, and hence seeking epistemological liberation. The text methodologically and...
Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»
Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»: Transcultural...
Mean Green
Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life along the border through the...
by Julie N. Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
In this close analysis of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics in his Critique of Judgment, Dr. Julie N. Books, explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality of our aesthetic judgments about beauty. Drawing upon her extensive background in the visual arts,...
by Amity Reading
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book explores conceptions of subjectivity in Anglo-Saxon England by analyzing the contents and sources of the Vercelli Book, a tenth-century compilation of Old English religious poetry and prose. The Vercelli Book’s selection and arrangement of texts...
Home with Hip Hop Feminism
Performances in Communication and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA
Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when...
Immigration and Contemporary British Theater
Finding a Home on the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater has responded to post-war immigration to the United Kingdom through its depictions of home and domestic life. Bridging literary analysis, theater history, and migration studies, the...
«Wooden Man»?
Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee («Boyhood», «Youth» and «Summertime»)
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee’s trilogy provides a panoramic view of a man’s...
by Wolfgang Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Although Wolfgang Schneider’s Grammatik des biblischen Hebräisch: Ein Lehrbuch serves primarily as an introductory textbook to biblical Hebrew, it makes an invaluable contribution to the text-linguistic study of Hebrew Bible. Schneider’s understanding of narrative syntax and discourse linguistics...
Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll
The Evolution of an American Youth Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘n’ Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering...