Books published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This book examines the poetry of Bernard Vargaftig (1934-2012) with a focus on his emphasis on the sacredness of words. His spiritual yearnings, as well as a need to heal due to lingering trauma from wartime hiding, are shown to underlie his poetry, which reflect a continual process of renewal and self-discovery.

The fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism

Bruno Munari was one of the most important and eclectic twentieth-century European artists, pioneering what would later be labelled kinetic art. Through original archival research and illuminating comparisons with other artists and movements, both within and outside Italy, this volume offers a unique analysis of Munari's seven-decade-long career.

This work connects productions of plays by Ibsen and Chekhov with adaptations made by contemporary Irish playwrights, demonstrating the significance of international influence for the national canon.

This ambitious and exciting study analyses the use of colour language in the work of Stefan George, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wassily Kandinsky and Else Lasker-Schuler to open up an understanding of how poetic language works and to ask how we read poetry.

This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who fought against British invaders and settlers, thus keeping their legacies alive and connected to community in the present.

Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal identity, have been transformed. This book will help scholars and general readers grasp the magnitude of change as it has transformed an important aspect of Scottish Gaelic culture.

The on-going debate on the legacies of European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. This book is a literary and intellectual history both of the reception of European Orientalism in Risorgimento Italy, and of the birth and development of an Italian Orientalist expression in the post-unification and fascist periods.

This book explores the rich variety of non-human figures in contemporary science fiction literature and film and considers what these figures tell us about our notions of humankind. The posthuman ultimately comes to serve as the symbol of a revolutionary vision of humanity that embraces a new, more humble way of being and living.

From the Metaphysicals to the Romantics.

Four plays by new and upcoming Romanian playwrights.

Selected plays by Tom Swift.

A useful and provocative book that collects the diverse and related practices of theatre makers and theatre professionals deserving of greater attention from artists, teachers and scholars. (Willie White, Director of Dublin Theatre Festival and President of IETM)Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland is an important contribution to the fields of Irish theatre and performance studies, and gender and performance in Ireland. The essays and interviews explore the work of women directors, designers, and playwrights on both sides of the Irish Border, who are currently shaping theatre practice on the island. By gathering such an impressive range of material, Mária Kurdi and Miriam Haughton have produced a collection that offers a snapshot of radical practice on the Irish stage in the early 21st century. (Lisa Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, University of Ulster)

Marie Jones is one of the most prolific and popular writers working in Northern Irish theatre today. Her work has achieved local relevance and international recognition. In the course of a remarkable career now spanning five decades, Jones has been an actor, playwright, and screenwriter; she also helped to establish two major Irish theatre companies (Charabanc and DubbelJoint) as well as playing a major role in theatre-in-education through her plays for Replay Productions. From her earliest work with Charabanc in the early 1980s to the present day, Jones's work has engaged with Irish (and, more often than not, specifically Northern Irish) experience in ways that reveal the extent to which the personal is political in a distinctive form of popular theatre. This volume of essays engages critically with Jones's oeuvre, her reception in Ireland and beyond, and her position in the canon of contemporary drama.

Sullied Magnificence: The Theatre of Mark O'Rowe is a collection of essays that combines the voices of Mark O'Rowe's collaborators and critics with analysis by leading academics. It examines the role of the actor and director in monologue theatre. It questions the use of violence in O'Rowe's films and plays. It explores influences and inspirations, and provides a thorough introduction to the work of one of Ireland's most unique theatrical voices. It also takes a brief look at O'Rowe's work for film, as both writer and director, and the crossover effect this work has had on his plays.

Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice is the first collection to focus exclusively on devised theatre throughout the island of Ireland by bringing together a range of perspectives from both academics and practitioners. It situates the histories and contemporary practice of devised performance in the Irish theatre, responding to a decisive shift in the working approach of several prominent emerging companies including ANU Productions, Brokentalkers, THEATREclub, and THISISPOPBABY. This collection takes a historical approach that demonstrates how this contemporary surge of work builds on a physical and dance theatre movement in Irish theatre that began to coalesce in the 1990s through the work of companies like Barabbas, Macnas, Blue Raincoat, and Pan Pan which was in turn influenced by earlier community arts practice on the island of Ireland beginning in the late 1970s. Devised Performance in Irish Theatre makes visible a uniquely Irish body of work that will also further international understandings of devised performance as collaborative process and working methodology.

Through his own experience of clerical abuse and his struggle with the system that allowed it to happen, the author documents an important period of social change in Ireland. The aim of the study is to situate tough personal experiences in lifeworld contexts for the purpose of changing powerful beliefs and practices.

In this edited volume, an international team of authors examines the development of football during the Second World War in a dozen European states. The volume concludes with essays on the representation of the topic in the arts and the media.

This edited volume focuses on a key notion in Queer Theory and activism: challenging, resisting and subverting contestations to the identitarian expression and performance of LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex, queer/querying etc.) subjects.

Depuis la fin des années 1990 et la signature de l¿Accord du Vendredi-Saint à Belfast en 1998, un nombre croissant de témoignages de survivants du conflit nord-irlandais ont été recueillis et publiés et occupent une place importante dans l¿espace public, tant dans la presse que le monde de l¿édition. Le sentiment de n¿être pas véritablement reconnu par la société et par ses institutions, d¿être exclu du récit historique dominant, et le manque de consensus sur le statut de « victime » contribuent au besoin de raconter sa propre histoire, donnant ainsi l¿impression d¿une polyphonie de points de vue.Alors que la plupart des études ont analysé la fonction et la portée politique et sociale des témoignages en Irlande du Nord, cet ouvrage montre dans quelle mesure ces récits permettent aux affects et aux émotions de s¿exprimer et de s¿élaborer, tant du côté du narrateur que de celui du lecteur. En adoptant une approche pluridisciplinaire et en soulignant le rôle de l¿intersubjectivité, ces récits, adressés à un Autre, sont ici analysés par le prisme d¿un lecteur bien particulier : celui du chercheur, qui accepte sa subjectivité et se situe délibérément dans l¿interaction entre le narrateur et lui-même.

The book examines the renderings into poetry of the life and works of Georgia O'Keeffe. It intends to show how these poems have interpreted, de-codified and translated O'Keeffe's subjects into words by making room for new meaningful images, expanding what O'Keeffe meant to do with her art and nourishing her artistic legacy.

West vs East, antifascism vs fascism, capitalism vs communism: these are the symbolic boundaries that have divided Europe. Focusing on the Adriatic and central European regions, this collection of essays explores ruptures and continuities in memory cultures, commemorative practices and the varying politics of the past in European borderlands.

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 3 includes an exploration of Milton's great biblical epic and traces the rise of the novel under Defoe, Swift, Fielding and Sterne. It ends with the Romantic poets.

This volume brings together three key and contested areas facing educationalists within schools, colleges and universities: values education, religious education and human rights education. Challenges and opportunities within each of these three areas may be illuminated and explored by bringing them into creative dialogue.

This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers - Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje - who were detained from the 1960s onward due to their political engagement.

This volume represents a significant new stage in Irish Famine scholarship, adopting a broad interdisciplinary approach that includes ground-breaking demographical, economic, cultural and literary research on poverty, poor relief and class relations during one of Europe's most devastating food crises.

This book is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection of essays by some of today's most forward-thinking scholars. The contributors explore the ways in which the prefix "trans" erupts German identity and the identity of Germany itself. What are the promises and perils for Germany, and German identity, in becoming transGerman?

Textos «ilegibles», entre comillas; porque en gran parte los textos dramáticos se compusieron para ser representados, no para ser leídos. Por supuesto que en primer lugar hay que leer el texto de una obra para enterarse de qué se trata. Sin embargo para su representación sobre las tablas hay que recurrir a una lectura especializada, la lectura teatral. Esta aproximación requiere que el texto se lea a la inversa, por decirlo así, desde el final, punto donde toda la acción se resuelve, hacia el principio punto donde nada se sabe. Así al preparar un montaje o estudiar la dramaturgia de una obra se hace posible construir tanto el desarrollo de la trama como la caracterización de los personajes. Este libro aplica esta aproximación teórica a una interpretación de varias comedias del Siglo de Oro español como ejemplificación de la metodología empleada.