Books published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

Cosmos and Camus explores the intersection of science fiction film with Albert Camus' philosophy of the absurd. Analyses of the films Contact, Arrival, A.I. and Her show that imaginative collisions with nonhumans help to illuminate the nature of the absurd in the human condition.

This book offers a model for social justice documentary and transmedia arts activism called third digital documentary. Drawing on the author's own transmedia project on indigenous and minority language endangerment and revival, the author explores the potential of this critical art practice.

Terence FitzSimons is an Honorary Research Fellow at Federation University Australia and an honorary historian with Sovereign Hill Museums Association, an affiliated institute of the university. His research interests are centred on Victorian social history.

When Europe fell prey to totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century, the Slovene artist Tone Kralj expressed resistance through his paintings in Catholic churches on the Slovene-Italian ethnic border, which show Hitler and Mussolini as villainous Biblical characters. This highly illustrated volume traces the anti-fascist messages in his work.

There remains an unexplored aspect of Goethe's career: his surprisingly significant role in 19th century melodrama. This score, the first edition of Eberwein's setting of Goethe's melodrama, Proserpina, offers an unprecedented examination of Goethe's text and overturns the accepted image of the artist as unmusical.

This is a book of considerable historical importance, offering an authoritative account of Liszt's teaching methods as imparted by two of his former students. It contains much valuable information unavailable elsewhere: none of the reminiscences of Liszt published by his students discuss technical matters or interpretation in comparable detail.

As well as providing a very readable and comprehensive study of the life and music of John Buckley,¿Constellations also offers an up-to-date and informative catalogue of compositions, a complete discography, translations of set texts and the full libretto of his chamber opera, making this book an essential guide for both students and professional scholars alike.

Lecture proceedings including the essence of theatre; Ireland's contribution to the art of theatre; the potential of drama in the classroom; the relationship between drama and film; and on opera and its history.

Poems 2000-2005 is a transitional collection written while the author - also known to be W. J. Me Cormack, literary historian - was in the process of moving back from London to settle in rural Ireland. It is also a vigorous contribution to the age-old dialogue between Sacred and Profane themes, questioning beliefs and pleasures, guilts and landscapes, poetic methods and prosaic realities.

This thought-provoking volume of essays, wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, engages with questions surrounding the many meanings ascribed to death and the memorialisation of the dead.

The author looks at the gospels from a modern angle. Was Jesus a person like us? He investigates these issues conscientiously and opens up a new way in which the modern Christian, despite everything, can confidently be a believer.

The Drunkard is a wonderfully eloquent play.'Young Edward Kilcullen's life is blighted by alcohol.

This book is a literary tour de force, where 28 Irish plays are examined and their rich cultural context exposed in a way that educates and excites.

The essays collected in Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O'Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist.

The book is remarkably well-focused: half is a series of production histories of Playboy performances through the twentieth century in the UK, Northern Ireland, the USA, and Ireland. The remainder focuses on one contemporary performance, that of Druid Theatre, as directed by Garry Hynes

This book, edited by Christina Hunt Mahony, presents twelve essays that trace the development of Sebastian Barry's career and the individual achievement of his works, concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on the plays.

It aims to stimulate further enquiry, research and critical reflection, in sceptical, analytic or celebratory modes, on the riches of Irish literary texts and traditions. The collection discusses texts from the early 18th century to the present.

Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry makes an important contribution to our understanding of the work of Ireland's greatest living playwright. The fifteen essays collected here provide us with new perspectives on Friel's most familiar works.

The central subject of the play is the quest a character at the point of emotional and moral breakdown for some source of meaning or identity.

With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, Interactions explores and celebrates the Dublin Theatre Festival's achievements since 1957 featuring essays on major Irish writers, directors and theatre companies, as well as the impact of visiting directors and companies from abroad.

Since the late 1970s there has been a marked internationalization of Irish drama, with individual plays, playwrights, and theatrical companies establishing newly global reputations. This book reflects upon these developments, drawing together leading scholars and playwrights to consider the consequences that arise when Irish theatre travels abroad. Essays discuss some of Ireland¿s major theatre companies ¿ Druid, the Abbey Theatre, Rough Magic, Blue Raincoat, Field Day and others ¿ while also exploring the presence of Irish drama in the UK, the USA, Germany, and throughout Ireland. The volume also presents the views of key playwrights, featuring essays by Elizabeth Kuti and Ursula Rani Sarma, and including a new interview with Enda Walsh.